| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Lined Snail Sucker
S: Caracolera Lineal |
| Synonym | Sibon linearis PÉREZ-HIGAREDA, LÓPEZ-LUNA & SMITH 2002
Sibon linearis — MCCRANIE 2006
Sibon linearis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 668 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz)
Type locality: Balzapote, municipality of San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz, México, 100 m elevation.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: CAR-EBTT (= IBH-LT = UNAM-LT) 1796. Collected by: Gonzalo Perez-Higareda; Collection Date: August 1983 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Similar to S. sanniola but with a lineate instead of blotched pattern, and 20 uv. 23-26 dentary teeth. (Perez-Higareda et al. 2002)
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| Comment | Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). |
| Etymology | Named after the Latin word linearis, meaning "of a line." |
| 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
- Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here
- Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
- McCranie, J.R. 2007. A second new species of Sibon (Squamata: Colubridae) from La Mosquitia, Northeastern Honduras. Herpetologica 63 (2): 213-218 - get paper here
- McCranie, James R. 2006. New species of Sibon (Squamata: Colubridae) from Northeastern Honduras. Journal of Herpetology 40 (1): 16-21 - get paper here
- Pérez-Higareda, Gonzalo, Marco A. López-Luna, and Hobart M. Smith 2002. A new snake related to Sibon sanniola (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 38(2):62-65 - get paper here
- ROVITO, SEAN M.; THEODORE J. PAPENFUSS 2012. A new species of Sibon (Squamata: Colubridae) from the mountains of eastern Guatemala. Zootaxa 3266: 62–68 - get paper here
- Torres-Hernández, LA, Ramírez-Bautista A, Cruz-Elizalde R, Hernández-Salinas U, Berriozabal-Islas C, DeSantis DL, Johnson JD, Rocha A, García-Padilla E, Mata-Silva V, Fucsko LA, and Wilson LD. 2021. The herpetofauna of Veracruz, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 15(2) [General Section]: 72–155 - 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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