Cemophora

Cemophora coccinea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Tribe:	Lampropeltini
Genus:	Cemophora Cope, 1860
Species
Two recognized species, see article.

Cemophora is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.^[1] The genus contains two species, which are endemic to the United States.

Species

Cemophora coccinea (Blumenbach, 1788)
- Cemophora coccinea coccinea (Blumenbach, 1788) – Florida scarlet snake
- Cemophora coccinea copei Jan, 1863 – northern scarlet snake
Cemophora lineri (K.L. Williams, B.C. Brown, & Wilson, 1966) – Texas scarlet snake

References

Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Genus Cemophora, p. 213).
Cope ED (1860). "Catalogue of the Colubridæ in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes and descriptions of new species. Part 2". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 12: 241–266. (Cemophora, new genus, p. 244).
Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press. 1,105 pp. (in 2 volumes). (Genus Cemophora, pp. 111–113).

Taxon identifiers
Cemophora	Wikidata: Q14424771 Wikispecies: Cemophora CoL: 3K42 EoL: 34896 GBIF: 2459245 iNaturalist: 27373 IRMNG: 1326946 ITIS: 174194 NCBI: 94896 Open Tree of Life: 1032599 Paleobiology Database: 67519