Middle American burrowing snake
Scientific classification Edit this 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[2]
  • Adelphicos quadrivirgatum
    Jan, 1862
  • Adelphicus [sic] quadrivirgatus
    — Cope, 1877
  • Atractus quadrivirgatus
    — Boulenger, 1894[3]
  • Adelphicos quadrivirgatus
    — Liner, 1994
  • Adelphicos quadrivirgatum
    — McCranie & Castañeda, 2005

Adelphicos quadrivirgatum, the Middle American burrowing snake, is a species of dipsadine colubrid snake, endemic to Mexico and Central America.[1][2]

Geographic range

A. quadrivirgatum is found in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico;[1][2] in Mexico, its range extends southward from the states of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas[1] to San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Puebla, Oaxaca, and Chiapas.[2]

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.[1]

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.[3]

Diet

A. quadrivirgatum preys mainly on earthworms.[2]

Reproduction

A. quadrivirgatum is oviparous.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Adelphicos quadrivirgatum at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. 1 2 Boulenger (1894).

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.
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