Middle American burrowing snake

The Middle American burrowing snake (Adelphicos quadrivirgatum) is a species of dipsadine colubrid snake, endemic to Mexico and Central America.[4]

Middle American burrowing snake
Adelphicos quadrivirgatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Adelphicos
Species:
A. quadrivirgatum
Binomial name
Adelphicos quadrivirgatum
Jan, 1862
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Adelphicos quadrivirgatum
    Jan, 1862
  • Adelphicus [sic] quadrivirgatus
    — Cope, 1877
  • Atractus quadrivirgatus
    — Boulenger, 1894
  • Adelphicos quadrivirgatus
    — Liner, 1994
  • Adelphicos quadrivirgatum
    — McCranie & Castañeda, 2005

Geographic range

A. quadrivirgatum is found in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and in the Mexican states of Chiapas, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas.[3]

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.[2]

Diet

A. quadrivirgatum preys mainly on earthworms.[3]

Reproduction

A. quadrivirgatum is oviparous.[3]

References
  1. Sunyer J, Ariano-Sánchez D, Flores-Villela O, Luque I (2013). "Adelphicos quadrivirgatum ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2013: e.T63731A3128444. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T63731A3128444.en. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. Boulenger (1894).
  3. Species Adelphicos quadrivirgatum at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  4. 2007 Catalogue of Life.

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 JR (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.


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