Ficimia ramirezi SMITH & LANGEBARTEL, 1949

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Ramirez's Hooknose Snake S: Nariz de Gancho de Ramirez
Synonym	Ficimia ramirezi SMITH & LANGEBARTEL 1949: 411 Ficimia ramirezi — LINER 1994 Ficimia ramirezi — LINER 2007 Ficimia ramirezi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 296
Distribution	SE Mexico Type locality: Mexico: 1 league N Niltepec, Oaxaca
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 3767; adult male, J. Ramirez; March 6, 1949.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A member of the genus Ficimia, with 20 poorly defined chocolate-brown blotches on back, separated from one another by spaces two to three times their own length, very incom pletely bordered with black; no dark markings on head; two internasals; two postoculars; ventrals 136, caudals 38 in single known male (Smith & Langebartel 1949: 411). Additional details (2435 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	The derivation of this specimen from an area where publia is to be expected casts some doubt upon its validity. Only further specimens can prove beyond reasonable doubt the validity of the supposed species. Certainly a sufiicient number of unique features in pattern occur in the type of ramlrezi to warrant the provisional assumption of the existence of a distinct species (Smith & Langebartel 1949: 412).
Etymology	Named after Juan Ramirez (?), a resident of Tehuantepec, who collected the type and assisted the senior author when visiting the Tehuantepec area nearly 10 years ago...”...”].
References	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. Hardy L M 1979. Ficimia ramirezi Smith and Langebartel. Ramirez's hook-nosed snake. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 228: 1 - get paper here Hardy L M 1990. Ficimia Gray. Southern hook-nosed snakes. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 471: 1-5 - get paper here Hardy, L. M. 1975. A systematic revision of the colubrid snake genus Ficimia. Journal of Herpetology 9 (2): 133-168. - 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 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 Mendoza-Quijano F; Smith H M 1993. A new species of hooknose snake, Ficimia (Reptilia, Serpentes). Journal of Herpetology 27 (4): 406-410 - get paper here Smith, H. M., & LANGEBARTEL, D. A. 1949. Notes on a collection of reptiles and amphibians from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 39: 409-416. 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.
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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