Salvadora (snake)
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Salvadora is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly called patchnose snakes or patch-nosed snakes, which are endemic to the western United States and Mexico.[1] They are characterized by having a distinctive scale on the tip of the snout.
Species and subspecies
The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.[2]
- Salvadora bairdi Jan, 1860Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Baird's patchnose snake[3]
- Salvadora deserticola Schmidt, 1940Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Big Bend patchnose snake
- Salvadora grahamiae Baird & Girard, 1853Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – mountain patchnose snake
- Salvadora gymnorhachis Hernández-Jiménez, Flores-Villela & Campbell, 2019Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Salvadora hexalepis (Cope, 1866)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – western patchnose snake
- Salvadora hexalepis hexalepis (Cope, 1866)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – desert patchnose snake
- Salvadora hexalepis klauberi Bogert, 1945Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Baja California patchnose snake
- Salvadora hexalepis mojavensis Bogert, 1945Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Mojave patchnose snake
- Salvadora hexalepis virgultea Bogert, 1935Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – coast patchnose snake
- Salvadora intermedia Hartweg, 1940Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Oaxacan patchnose snake
- Salvadora lemniscata (Cope, 1895)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Pacific patchnose snake
- Salvadora lineata Schmidt, 1940Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Texas patchnose snake
- Salvadora mexicana (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Mexican patchnose snake
References
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- ↑ Conant, Roger (1975). A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. xviii + 429 pp. + Plates 1-48. Template:ISBN (hardcover), Template:ISBN (paperback). (Salvadora, pp. 187-189, Figure 42 + Plate 31 + Maps 143, 146).
- ↑ Genus Salvadora at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Salvadori bairdi, p.14).
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Further reading
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- Baird SF, Girard CF (1853). Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part I.—Serpents. Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution. xvi + 172 pp. (Salvadora, new genus, p. 104).
- Hernández-Jiménez CA, Flores-Villela O, Aguilar-Bremauntz A, Campbell JA (2021). “Phylogenetic relationships based on morphological data and taxonomy of the genus Salvadora Baird & Girard, 1853”. European Journal of Taxonomy 764: 85–118.
- Schmidt KP, Davis DD (1941). Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 365 pp. (Genus Salvadora, p. 135).
- Smith HM, Brodie ED Jr (1982). Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. New York: Golden Press. 240 pp. Template:ISBN. (Genus Salvadora, p. 194).
- Stebbins RC (2003). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Third Edition. The Peterson Field Guide Series ®. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. xiii + 533 pp. Template:ISBN. (Genus Salvadora, p. 356).
- Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock. 1,105 pp. (in 2 volumes) (Genus Salvadora, p. 644).
- Zim HS, Smith HM (1956). Reptiles and Amphibians: A Guide to Familiar Species: A Golden Nature Guide. New York: Simon and Schuster. 160 pp. (Genus Salvadora, pp. 88, 156).