| Adelphicos | |
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| Adelphicos quadrivirgatum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Dipsadinae |
| Genus: | Adelphicos Jan, 1862 |
Adelphicos is a genus of New World burrowing snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus consists of nine species.[1]
Geographic range
Species of the genus Adelphicos can be found in Mexico and northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala).[2]
Species
There are nine species which are recognized as being valid.[1][3]
- Adelphicos daryi Campbell & Ford, 1982 – Dary's burrowing snake[2]
- Adelphicos ibarrorum Campbell & Brodie III, 1988 – Ibarras' burrowing snake
- Adelphicos latifasciatum J.D. Lynch & H.M. Smith, 1966 – Oaxaca burrowing snake
- Adelphicos newmanorum Taylor, 1950 – Middle American burrowing snake
- Adelphicos nigrilatum H.M. Smith, 1942 – burrowing snake
- Adelphicos quadrivirgatum Jan, 1862 – Middle American burrowing snake
- Adelphicos sargii (Fischer, 1885) – Sargi's earth snake
- Adelphicos veraepacis Stuart, 1941 – Stuart's burrowing snake
- Adelphicos visoninum (Cope, 1866) – Middle American burrowing snake
Etymology
The specific name, newmanorum (Latin, genitive, plural), is in honor of American zoologist Robert J. Newman and his wife Marcella Newman.[4]
The specific name, sargii (Latin, genitive, singular), is in honor of Franz Sarg (1840–1920) who served as German Consul in Guatemala.[4]
References
- 1 2 Adelphicos at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 May 2022.
- 1 2 Campbell, Jonathan A.; Ford, Linda S. (1982). "Phylogenetic relationships of the colubrid snakes of the genus Adelphicos in the highlands of Middle America". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas. 100: 1–22.
- ↑ Mexico Herpetology Archived 2007-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
- 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
- Jan G (1862). "Enumerazione sistematica delle specie d' ofidi dell gruppo Calamaridae". Archivio per la Zoologia l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia 2: 1–76. (Adelphicos, new genus, pp. 18–19). (in Italian).
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