Middle American burrowing snake | |
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Conservation status | |
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Colubridae |
Genus: | Adelphicos |
Species: | A. quadrivirgatum |
Binomial name | |
Adelphicos quadrivirgatum Jan, 1862 | |
Synonyms | |
Adelphicos quadrivirgatum, the Middle American burrowing snake, is a species of dipsadine colubrid snake, endemic to Mexico and Central America.
Geographic range
A. quadrivirgatum is found in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico; in Mexico, its range extends southward from the states of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas to San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Puebla, Oaxaca, and Chiapas.
Habitat
A. quadrivirgatum inhabits tropical and subtropical wet and moist forest at elevations from sea level to 1,740 m (5,710 ft). It is often found beneath logs.
Description
A. quadrivirgatum is a small snake. Adult females may attain a total length of 36.5 cm (14.4 in), which includes a tail 5.5 cm (2.2 in) long. Dorsally, it is pale reddish brown, with four or five blackish narrow stripes. Ventrally, it is whitish with a brown stripe along the middle of the tail.
Diet
A. quadrivirgatum preys mainly on earthworms.
Reproduction
A. quadrivirgatum is oviparous.
References
- ^ Sunyer, J.; Ariano-Sánchez, D.; Flores-Villela, O.; Luque, I. (2013). "Adelphicos quadrivirgatum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T63731A3128444. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T63731A3128444.en. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ Boulenger (1894).
- ^ Adelphicos quadrivirgatum at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
Further reading
- 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. (Atractus quadrivirgatus, pp. 312–313).
- Heimes, Peter (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
- Jan G (1862). "Enumerazione sistematico delle specie d'ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae ". Archivio per la Zoologia l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia 2: 1–76. (Adelphicos quadrivirgatum, new species, p. 19). (in Italian).
- McCranie, James R. (2015). "A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed". Zootaxa. 3931 (3): 352–386. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.2. PMID 25781832.
External links
- Media related to Adelphicos quadrivirgatum at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers | |
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Adelphicos quadrivirgatum |