Adelphicos latifasciatum LYNCH & SMITH, 1966

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Oaxacan Burrowing Snake S: Ocotera de Oaxaca
Synonym	Adelphicos veraepacis latifasciatus LYNCH & SMITH 1966: 66 Adelphicos veraepacis latifasciatus— PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 16 Adelphicos latifasciatus — LINER 1994 Adelphicos latifasciatum — LINER 2007 Adelphicos latifasciatum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 9 Adelphicos latifasciatum — HEIMES 2016: 201
Distribution	SE Mexico (Oaxaca, Chiapas) Type locality: Mexico: Zanatepec, Sierra Madre, Oaxaca
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 56147; T. MacDougall; September 6-12, 1963.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: The species may be distinguished from all other members of the veraepacis group by the high number of subcaudals in males (46—51) and females (37—41), its relatively long tail comprising 20.4—22.3% and 14.6—15.6% of the total length in males and females respectively, and its broad middorsal stripe that in- cludes the vertebra] and adjacent halves of the paravertebral scale rows. The modal number of teeth tends to be more (11 maxillary, 11 dentary, 9 palatal, and 18 pterygoid) than in the other species. It can be distinguished from A. daryi and A. veraepacis by its pale to reddish brown ground color. It differs from A. daryi, A. verae- pacis, and most A. nigrilatus by lacking paravertebral stripes and having an unpigmented venter. In A. latifasciatus the lateral stripe involves scale row 3 and adjacent halves of scale rows 2 and 4, whereas in A. daryi and A. oeraepacis the stripe includes scale row 2 and adjacent portions of scale rows 1 and 3 (Campbell & Ford 1982). Additional details (949 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	The name latifasciatus is derived from the Latin lati, meaning broad or wide, and fasciatus, meaning a band, and refers to the distinctive broad dorsal stripe.
References	Aguilar-López JL, Luría-Manzano R, Pineda E, Canseco-Márquez L 2021. Selva Zoque, Mexico: an important Mesoamerican tropical region for reptile species diversity and conservation. ZooKeys 1054: 127-153 - get paper here Campbell J A; Brodie E D Jr 1988. A new colubrid snake of the genus Adelphicos from Guatemala. Herpetologica 44 (4): 416-422 - get paper here Campbell J A; Ford L 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 (No. 100): 1-22 - get paper here Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F. CLAUSE, ADAM G.; ROBERTO LUNA-REYES, ADRIÁN NIETO-MONTES DE OCA & JAMES D. HUNT. 2021. Adelphicos latifasciatum (Squamata: Dipsadidae) Occurs in Chiapas, Mexico, and is Imperiled. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 16(3): 571–583. - get paper here Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp Liner, Ernest A. 2007. A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60 - get paper here Lynch,J. D., & SMITH, H. M. 1966. New or unusual amphibians and reptiles from Oaxaca, Mexico, II. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 69: 58-75. - get paper here Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
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