Sonora savagei | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Colubridae |
Genus: | Sonora |
Species: | S. savagei |
Binomial name | |
Sonora savagei Cliff, 1954 | |
Sonora savagei, Savage's ground snake, is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. [2]
Sonora is a genus of small harmless colubrid snakes commonly referred to as ground snakes, which are endemic to North America.
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The narrow-headed garter snake, Thamnophis rufipunctatus, is a species of garter snake, endemic to the southwestern United States and adjacent northwestern Mexico. Its common names also include narrowhead garter snake and narrowhead watersnake.
Atractus is a genus of colubrid ground snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae. The genus includes more than 140 distinct species.
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Centrolene savagei is a species of frog in the family Centrolenidae that is endemic to the Andes of western Colombia, specifically the Cordillera Occidental and Cordillera Central. Its common name is Savage's Cochran frog.
Jay Mathers Savage is an American herpetologist known for his research on reptiles and amphibians of Central America. He is a past president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Southern California Academy of Sciences. He received his bachelor's (1950), master's (1954), and doctoral (1955) degrees from Stanford University. He has produced around 200 publications, including the books Evolution and The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Miami and adjunct professor at San Diego State University.
The western shovelnose snake is a species of snake of the family Colubridae.
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Pseuderemias savagei is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.
Atractus savagei, Savage’s ground snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species can be found in Ecuador.
There are two species of snake named Savage’s ground snake:
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