Sumichrast's garter snake

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

Sumichrast's garter snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Thamnophis
Species:
T. sumichrasti
Binomial name
Thamnophis sumichrasti
(Cope, 1866)
Synonyms[2]
  • Eutaenia sumichrasti
    Cope, 1866
  • Eutaenia phenax
    Cope, 1868
  • Thamnophis haliophis
    Taylor, 1940
  • Thamnophis phenax halophilus
    — H.M. Smith, 1942
  • Thamnophis sumichrasti
    — Liner, 1994

Etymology

The specific name sumichrasti is in honor of the Swiss-born Mexican naturalist Adrien Jean Louis François de Sumichrast (1828–1882).[3]

Geographic range

Thamnophis sumichrasti is found in the Mexican states of Chiapas, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, and Veracruz.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of T. sumichrasti are freshwater wetlands and forest.[1]

Reproduction

T. sumichrasti is viviparous.[2]

References
  1. Canseco-Márquez L, Flores-Villela O (2007). "Thamnophis sumichrasti ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  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.



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