Hypsiglena torquata GÜNTHER 1860
| Contributions to the ophiology of Lower California, Mexico and Central America E D Cope (1861) Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 292-306 | |
| Reptiles from Sonora, Sinaloa, and Jalisco, Mexico, with a description of a new species of Sceloporus Van Denburgh (1898) Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1897: 460-464 | |
| Notes on the Herpetological fauna of the Mexican state of Sinaloa E H Taylor (1936) University of Kansas Science Bulletin 24: 505-537 | |
| Notes on the Mexican snakes of the genus Leptodeira, with a proposal of a new snake genus, Pseudoleptodeira E H Taylor (1938) University of Kansas Science Bulletin 25: 315-355 | |
| On Mexican snakes of the genera Trimorphodon and Hypsiglena E H Taylor (1938) University of Kansas Science Bulletin 25: 357-383 | |
| Summary of the collections of snakes and crocodilians made in M H M Smith (1943) Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus 93: 393-504 | |
| Present location of certain herpetological and other type specimens E H Taylor (1944) University of Kansas Science Bulletin 30: 117-187 | |
| Additions to the known herpetological fauna of Costa Rica with comments on other species. No. II E H Taylor (1955) University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37: 499-575 | |
| The chigger mites of Kansas (Acarina, Trombiculidae) Richard B Loomis (1956) University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37(19): 1195-1443 | |
| The amphibians and reptiles of Michoacán, México W E Duellman (1961) University of Kansas Publications. Museum of Natural History 15: 1-148 | |
| Type specimens of reptiles and amphibians in the United States National Museum (1961) Bulletin of the United States National Museum 220: 1-291 | |
| A survey of the herpetofauna of the Death Valley area F B Turner and R H Wauer (1963) Great Basin Naturalist 23: 119-128 | |
| Sea of Cortez Expedition and the California Academy of Sciences, June 20-July 4, 1964 G E Lindsay (1964) Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (4) 30: 211-242 | |
| Herpetology of the Zuni Mountains Region, Northwestern New Mexico Frederick R Gehlbach (1965) Proc. US. Natl. Mus 116: 243-332 | |
| The night snakes of Baja California Wilmer W Tanner (1966) Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 14: 189-196 | |
| The cochlear duct of snakes Malcolm R Miller (1968) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 35: 425-476 | |
| The amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico L M Hardy and And R W Mcdiarmid (1969) University of Kansas Publications. Museum of Natural History 18: 39-252 | |
| Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata. Part I. Snakes James A Peters and Braulio Orejas-Miranda (1970) Bulletin United States National Museum 297: 1-347 | |
| Notes on the herpetology of Grant County, Oregon J H Black and R M Storm (1970) The Great Basin Naturalist 30: 9-12 | |
| A taxonomic comparison of Uta stansburiana of the Great Basin and the upper Colorado River basin in Utah, with a description of a new subspecies L E Pack and W W Tanner (1970) Great Basin Naturalist 30: 71-90 | |
| A new Hypsiglena from Tiburon Island, Sonoroa, Mexico W W Tanner (1981) Great Basin Naturalist 41: 139-142 | |
| Additional distributional records and abundance of three species of snakes in southwestern Idaho L V Diller and R L Wallace (1981) Great Basin Naturalist 41: 154-157 | |
| Reproduction in Hypsiglena W W Tanner and J R Ottley (1981) Great Basin Naturalist 41: 310 | |
| Late Wisconsinan And Holocene Fauna From Smith Creek Canyon Snake Range Nevada Usa J I Mead, R S Thompson and Devender T R Van (1982) Transactions of The San Diego Society of Natural History 20: 1-26 | |
| The Late Wisconsinan Vertebrate Fauna From Deadman Cave Southern Arizona Usa J I Mead, E L Roth et al. (1984) Transactions of The San Diego Society of Natural History 20: 247-276 | |
| The sangamon interglacial vertebrate fauna from Rancho la Brisca, Sonora, Mexico Thomas R Van Devender, Amadeo M Rea and Michael L Smith (1985) Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 21: 23-55 | |
| An ecogeographic analysis of the herpetofauna of the Sierra San Pedro Mártir region, Baja California, with a contribution to the biogeography of the Baja California herpetofauna Welsh Jr and Hartwell H (1988) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 46: 1-72 | |
| Type locality restriction of Hypsiglena torquata Günther W W Tanner (1997) Great Basin Naturalist 57: 79-82 |