Middle American burrowing snake

Middle American burrowing snake
Adelphicos quadrivirgatum 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]
  • Adelphicos quadrivirgatum
    Jan, 1865
  • Rhegnops visoninus
    Cope, 1866
  • Adelphicus [sic] quadrivirgatus
    — Cope, 1877
  • Rhegnops sargii
    Fischer, 1885
  • Adelphicos quadrivirgatum
    — McCranie & Castañeda, 2005

The Middle American burrowing snake (Adelphicos quadrivirgatum) is a species of dipsadine colubrid snake, endemic to Mexico and Central America.[3]

Subspecies

Four subspecies, including the nominotypical subspecies, are recognized as being valid.[4]

  • Newmans' earth snake, A. q. newmanorum Taylor, 1950
  • Jan's earth snake, A. q. quadrivirgatum Jan, 1862
  • Sargi's earth snake, A. q. sargii (Fischer, 1885)
  • Cope's earth snake, A. q. visoninus (Cope, 1866)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Adelphicos.

Etymology

The specific name, newmanorum (Latin, genitive, plural), is in honor of American zoologist Robert J. Newman and his wife Marcella Newman.[5]

The specific name, sargii (Latin, genitive, singular), is in honor of Franz Sarg (1840–1920), who served as German Consul in Guatemala.[5]

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. ↑ "Adelphicos quadrivirgatum ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ 2007 Catalogue of Life.
  4. ↑ Mexico Herpetology. Archived September 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. 1 2 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. (Adelphicos quadrivirgatus newmanorum, p. 189; A. q. sargii, p. 233).

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).
  • 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).


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