Adelphicos quadrivirgatum

Middle American burrowing snake
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
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  [ fr ] & 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. 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. Adelphicos quadrivirgatum at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
3. 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 Fisiologia2: 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. PMID   25781832.

External links

• Media related to Adelphicos quadrivirgatum at Wikimedia Commons