| Adelphicos nigrilatum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Adelphicos |
| Species: | A. nigrilatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Adelphicos nigrilatum Smith, 1942 | |
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Adelphicos nigrilatum, the burrowing snake, is a colubrid snake found in Mexico. [2]
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Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal.
Colubridae is a family of snakes. With 249 genera, it is the largest snake family. The earliest species of the family date back to the Oligocene epoch. Colubrid snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica.
Squamata is the largest order of reptiles, comprising lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians, which are collectively known as squamates or scaled reptiles. With over 10,900 species, it is also the second-largest order of extant (living) vertebrates, after the perciform fish. Members of the order are distinguished by their skins, which bear horny scales or shields. They also possess movable quadrate bones, making possible movement of the upper jaw relative to the neurocranium. This is particularly visible in snakes, which are able to open their mouths very wide to accommodate comparatively large prey. Squamata is the most variably sized order of reptiles, ranging from the 16 mm (0.63 in) dwarf gecko to the 6.5 m (21 ft) Reticulated python and the now-extinct mosasaurs, which reached lengths over 14 m (46 ft).
Ophidia is a group of squamate reptiles including modern snakes and reptiles more closely related to snakes than to other living groups of lizards.
Adelphicos is a genus of New World burrowing snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus consists of nine species.
The Middle American burrowing snake is a species of dipsadine colubrid snake, endemic to Mexico and Central America.
Dary's burrowing snake is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Guatemala.
Burrowing snake may refer to:
Middle American burrowing snake may refer to:
Adelphicos latifasciatum, the Oaxaca burrowing snake, is a colubrid snake described by John D. Lynch and Hobart Muir Smith in 1966.
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Stuart's burrowing snake is a species of colubrid snake. It is endemic to the Guatemala, where it can be found in pine-oak and cloud forests on Sierra de las Minas, the Cuilco Mountains, Sierra de los Cuchumatanes and Sierra de Xucaneb, at elevations of 1,200–2,200 m. It is terrestrial, fossorial and mainly nocturnal. It is threatened by habitat loss from agriculture and the exportation of Chamaedaphne calyculata plants.
Dipsadinae is a large subfamily of colubroid snakes, sometimes referred to as a family (Dipsadidae). They are found in most of the Americas, including the West Indies, and are most diverse in South America. There are more than 700 species.
The Chiapas montane forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in southern Mexico and extending into western Guatemala. It includes the montane tropical forests on the northern and northeastern slopes of the Chiapas Highlands.
Adelphicos ibarrorum is a species of colubrid snake. It is endemic to Guatemala and only known from the highlands of south-central Guatemala in the region of its type locality near Chichicastenango. It is a fossorial snake known from pine-oak forest and forest edge at elevations of 2,000–2,100 m (6,600–6,900 ft) above sea level. It is threatened by deforestation for agricultural purposes.
Adelphicos newmanorum, the Middle American burrowing snake, is a colubrid snake found in Mexico.
Adelphicos sargii, Sargi’s earth snake, is a colubrid snake found in Mexico and Guatemala.
Adelphicos visoninum, the Middle American burrowing snake, is a colubrid snake found in Mexico and Guatemala.
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