Il colubro di Esculapio italico, Zamenis lineatus (Camerano, 1891)

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Classificazione - Regno: Animalia. Sottoregno: Eumetazoa. Phylum: Chordata. Subphylum: Vertebrata. Superclasse: Gnathostomata. Classe: Reptilia. Sottoclasse: Diapsida. Ordine: Squamata. Sottordine: Serpentes. Famiglia: Colubridae. Sottofamiglia: Colubrinae. Genere: Zamenis.

Fonti bibliografiche principali - Corti, C. 2006. Zamenis lineatus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Bibliografia - Arnold, E.N. 2003. Reptiles and Amphibians of Europe. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford.

Lenk, P. and Joger, U. 1994. Genetic relationships between populations and intraspecific subdivision of Elaphe longissima (Laurenti, 1768) as suggested by plasma protein electrophoresis and DNA fingerprint. Amphibia-Reptilia 15: 363–373

Lenk, P. and Wüster, W. 1999. A multivariate approach to the systematics of Italian rat snakes of the Elaphe longissima complex (Reptilia, Colubridae): revalidation of Camerano's Callopeltis longissimus var. lineata. The Herpetological Journal 9(4): 153–162

Lenk, P., Joger, U. and Wink, M. 2001. Phylogenetic relationships among European ratsnakes of the genus Elaphe Fitzinger based on mitochondrial DNA sequence comparisons. Amphibia-Reptilia 22(3): 329–339.

Utiger, U., Helfenberger, N., Schätti, B., Schmidt, C., Ruf, M. and Ziswiler, V. 2002. Molecular systematics and phylogeny of Old World and New World ratsnakes, Elaphe Auct., and related genera (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 9(2): 105–124.