Desert Rat Snakes Bogertophis   Dowling & Price, 1988

Taxonomic Comments:

Schulz (1996 A Monograph of the Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Elaphe Fitzinger. Koeltz Scientific Books. 439 pp.) synonymized this genus with Elaphe. Collins & Taggart (2002 Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians. Fifth Edition) submitted for consideration the proposal by Schultz (1996 op. cit.) to a snake systematist group composed of Frank T. Burbrink, Jeff Camper, Harry W. Greene, L. Lee Grismer, Robin Lawson, James R. McCranie, Andrew H. Price, Javier Rodriguez-Robles, and Samuel S. Sweet, and they disagreed.