Arizona

Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from English Arizona, of uncertain further etymology.

Proper noun

Arizona f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Colubridae – glossy snakes, of Mexico and the southwestern US.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Diapsida – subclass; Lepidosauromorpha – infraclass; Lepidosauria – superorder; Squamata – order; Caenophidia – clade; Colubroidea – superfamily; Colubridae – family; Colubrinae – subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Arizona elegans (glossy snake) – type species; Arizona pacata (peninsular glossy snake) – other extant species

References

• Arizona (snake) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Arizona on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Arizona (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Arizona at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Arizona at the Catalogue of Life 
• Arizona at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Arizona available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
• “Arizona”, in Paleobiology Database, 2025