Adelphicos

Adelphicos
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 generic name comes from the Greek "adelphikos," meaning "brotherly." ^[4]

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. Adelphicos at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 22 May 2022.
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.
3. Mexico Herpetology Archived 2007-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
4. LaDuc, Travis J. (1995). "The Nomenclatural Status and Gender of Adelphicos" . Journal of Herpetology. 29 (1): 141–142. doi:10.2307/1565102. ISSN   0022-1511. JSTOR   1565102.
5. 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 Fisiologia2: 1–76. (Adelphicos, new genus, pp. 18–19). (in Italian).