Adelphicos veraepacis STUART, 1941

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Stuart's Burrowing Snake
Synonym	Adelphicos veraepacis STUART 1941: 5 Adelphicos veraepacis — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 16 Adelphicos veraepacis — VILLA et al. 1988 Adelphicos veraepacis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 9
Distribution	Guatemala Type locality: Cloud forest above Finca Samac, 7 km west of Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, elevation about 1500 m.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: UMMZ 89073, adult male
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A moderately large Adelphicos, females to 461 mm and males to 372 mm total length, possessing a unique combination of characteristics: females may distinguished from all daryi and most A. nigrilatus by having a higher number of ventrals (132-142); males possess 29—41 subcaudals and females have 24—31, distinguishing them from A. daryi and A. latifasciatus which possess fewer and more subcaudals, respectively. The dark brown or gray dorsal coloration can be confused only with A. daryi, but the scales of the first scale row are not light posteroventrally or only slightly so, in contrast to the boldly defined pale spots in A. daryi (Fig. 5). The dorsolateral stripes generally are not continuous and involve no more than the edges of two adjacent scale rows. The anterior edges of the ventrals are darkly pigmented like A. daryi, but there is a heavy concentration of dark pigment midventrally. This species may be distinguished from A. daryi by possessing a relatively larger eye that is contained 1.3—2.6 times in the snout length (Campbell & Ford 1982). Additional details (2526 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	= Rhadinaea veraepacis STUART 1941 ??? (Stuart & Bailey 1941, Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (442): 1-11). Distribution: Not in Mexico (Not listed in LINER 1994, Liner 2007, Heimes 2016).
References	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 Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp. Liner, E.A. 1994. Scientific and common names for the Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanish. Herpetological Circular 23: 1-113 Smith, H.M. 1942. A review of the snake genus Adelphicos. Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. 8: 175-195 - get paper here Stuart,L.C. 1941. Some new snakes from Guatemala. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (No. 452): 1-7 - get paper here VITERI, MARTÍN & CRISTINA ARRIVILLAGA 2019. Arboreal behaviour in the Stuart’s burrowing snake Adelphicos veraepacis (Dipsadinae) in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. Herpetological Bulletin 147: - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/380144997543438/ Google images

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