Ficimia hardyi

Ficimia hardyi
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Ficimia
Species:	F. hardyi
Binomial name
	Ficimia hardyi; Mendoza-Quijano & H.M. Smith, 1993

Last updated September 28, 2025

Ficimia hardyi, also known commonly as Hardy's hooknose snake, Hardy's hook-nosed snake, the Hidalgo hook-nosed snake, and nariz de gancho de Hardy in Mexican Spanish, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico.^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, hardyi, is in honor of American herpetologist Laurence McNeil Hardy.^[3]

Geographic range

F. hardyi is found in the Mexican states of Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas.^[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of F. hardyi are forest and shrubland, but it has also been found in cultivated agave fields.^[1]

Description

The holotype of F. hardyi has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 28.2 cm (11.1 in), plus a tail length of 7.6 cm (3.0 in).^[2]

Behavior

F. hardyi is terrestrial and fossorial.^[1]

Reproduction

F. hardyi is oviparous.^[1]^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 Mendoza-Quijano, F. (2007). "Ficimia hardyi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2007 e.T63781A12708026. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63781A12708026.en . Retrieved 18 May 2023.
1 2 3 4 Species Ficimia hardyi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
↑ 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. (Ficimia hardyi, p. 116).

Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
Hernández-Ibarra, Xóchitl; Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio; Torres-Cervantes, Ricardo; Hernández-Macías, Hector (1999). "Geographic Distribution. Ficimia hardyi (Hardy's Hooknose Snake)". Herpetological Review30 (4): 235.
Mendoza-Quijano F, Smith HM (1993). "A New Species of Hooknose Snake, Ficimia (Reptilia, Serpentes)". Journal of Herpetology27 (4): 406–410. (Ficimia hardyi, new species). (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).
Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio; Hernández-Ibarra, Xóchitl; Torres-Cervantes, Ricardo; Smith, Hobart M. (1999). "External Morphological Variation in Hardy's Hooknose Snake Ficimia hardyi (Squamata: Colubridae)". Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society35 (3): 81–84.

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[iucn-1] 1 2 3 4 Mendoza-Quijano, F. (2007). "Ficimia hardyi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2007 e.T63781A12708026. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63781A12708026.en . Retrieved 18 May 2023.

[RDB-2] 1 2 3 4 Species Ficimia hardyi 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. (Ficimia hardyi, p. 116).

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