Chionactis occipitalis HALLOWELL 1854
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| Life-zone indicators in California Harvey Monroe Hall and Joseph Grinnell (1919) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 9: 37-67 | |
| List of the amphibians and reptiles of the peninsula of lower California, with notes on the species in the collection of the academy J Van Denburgh and J R Slevin (1921) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 11: 49-72 | |
| A new snake of the genus Sonora from Mexico Laurence M Klauber (1937) Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 8(27): 363-366 | |
| The worm snakes of the genus Leptotyphlops in the United States and Northern Mexico Laurence M Klauber (1940) Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 9: 87-162 | |
| The long-nosed snakes of the genus Rhinocheilus Laurence M Klauber (1941) Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 9: 289-332 | |
| The Mexican snakes of the genera Sonora and Chionactis with notes on the status of other colubrid genera W H Stickel (1943) Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash 56: 109-128 | |
| The sidewinder, Crotalus cerastes, with description of a new subspecies Laurence M Klauber (1944) Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 10: 91-126 | |
| The shovel-nosed snake, Chionactis with descriptions of two new subspecies Laurence M Klauber (1951) Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 11: 141-204 | |
| Holotype specimens of reptiles in the collection of the San Diego Society of Natural History Allan J Sloan (1965) Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 14: 1-8 |