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Sumichrast's garter snake

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Species of snake

Sumichrast's garter snake
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Thamnophis
Species: T. sumichrasti
Binomial name
Thamnophis sumichrasti
(Cope, 1866)
Synonyms
  • Eutaenia sumichrasti
    Cope, 1866
  • Eutaenia phenax
    Cope, 1868
  • Thamnophis haliophis
    Taylor, 1940
  • Thamnophis phenax halophilus
    — H.M. Smith, 1942
  • Thamnophis sumichrasti
    — Liner, 1994

Sumichrast's garter snake (Thamnophis sumichrasti) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico.

Etymology

The specific name sumichrasti is in honor of the Swiss-born Mexican naturalist Adrien Jean Louis François Sumichrast (1828–1882).

Geographic range

Thamnophis sumichrasti is found in the Mexican states of Chiapas, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, and Veracruz.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of T. sumichrasti are freshwater wetlands and forest.

Reproduction

T. sumichrasti is viviparous.

References

  1. ^ Canseco-Márquez, L.; Flores-Villela, O. (2007). "Thamnophis sumichrasti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T63994A12728045. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63994A12728045.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Species Thamnophis sumichrasti at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Thamnophis sumichrasti, p. 258).

Further reading

  • Cope ED (1866). "On the REPTILIA and BATRACHIA of the Sonoran Province of the Nearctic Region". Proceedings of the Acadademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18: 300–314. (Eutaenia sumichrasti, new species, p. 306).
  • Heimes, Peter (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
  • Rossman DA (1966). "Evidence for Conspecificity of the Mexican Garter Snakes Thamnophis phenax (Cope) and Thamnophis sumichrasti (Cope)". Herpetologica 22 (4): 303–305.


Taxon identifiers
Thamnophis sumichrasti
Eutaenia sumichrasti


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