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Dipsas gaigeae (OLIVER, 1937)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Gaige's Thirst Snail-eater
S: Zicatlinán 
SynonymSibynomorphus gaigeae OLIVER 1937: 22
Dipsas gaigeae — SMITH synopsis Mex.
Dipsas gaigeae — LINER 1994
Dipsas gaigeae — LINER 2007
Dipsas gaigeae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 232 
DistributionMexico (Colima, Jalisco, Guerrero)

Type locality: “Paso del Río, Colima, Mexico.” [= Periquillo, Haciendo Paso del Río, Colima State, Mexico fide Kofron, 1982: 289].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: UMMZ 80221 
DiagnosisDIAGNOSIS. Seven upper labials, seven lower labials; thirteen dorsal scale rows, smooth, middorsal row slightly enlarged ; seventy subcaudals. (Oliver 1937)


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CommentHabitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Helen Beulah Thompson Gaige (1890-1976), American herpetologist at the University of Michigan. See Bell et al. 2021 for biographical data. 
References
  • Bell, R., Arce H, M., Franklin, M., Roa-Varon, A., & Wehrle, B. A. 2021. Helen Thompson Gaige. Ichthyology & Herpetology, 109(1): 322
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • García, A. & Ceballos, G. 1994. GUIA DE CAMPO DE LOS REPTILES Y ANFIBIOS DE LA COSTA DE JALISCO, MEXICO. FUNDACION ECOLOGICA DE CUIXMALA, A.C. INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA, UNAM - get paper here
  • Hale, S.F. 1977. Observations on Additional Specimens of the Mexican Snail-Eating Snake, Dipsas gaigeae (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae) Journal of Herpetology 11 (3): 374-377. - 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
  • Harris, H.S., Jr. & R.S. Simmons 1967. Another Dipsas gaigeae (Oliver) from Colima, Mexico Herpetologica 23 (3): 234-235. - get paper here
  • Harvey, Michael B. and Dirk Embert 2008. Review of Bolivian Dipsas (Serpentes: Colubridae), with Comments on Other South American Species. Herpetological Monographs 22 (1): 54-105 - get paper here
  • Harvey, Michael B.; Gilson Rivas Fuenmayor, José Rances Caicedo-Portilla, and José Vicente Rueda-Almonacid 2009. Systematics of the Enigmatic Dipsadine Snake Tropidodipsas perijanensis Alemán (Serpentes: Colubridae) and Review of Morphological Characters of Dipsadini. Herpetological Monographs 22 (1): 106-132 - get paper here
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • Kofron, C.P. 1982. A review of the Mexican snail-eating snakes, Dipsas brevifacies and Dipsas gaigeae. Journal of Herpetology 16 (3): 270-286 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Pierce LJS, Painter CW 2020. The amphibians and reptiles of Colima, Mexico, with a summary of their conservation status. ZooKeys 927: 99-125 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Oliver, James A. 1937. Notes on a collection of amphibians and reptiles from the State of Colima, Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (360): 1-28 - get paper here
  • Palacios-Aguilar, Ricardo & OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA 2018. An updated checklist of the herpetofauna from Guerrero, Mexico. Zootaxa 4422 (1): 1-24 - get paper here
  • Ray JM, Sánchez-Martínez P, Batista A, Mulcahy DG, Sheehy III CM, Smith EN, Pyron RA, Arteaga A 2023. A new species of Dipsas (Serpentes, Dipsadidae) from central Panama. ZooKeys 1145: 131–167 - get paper here
  • Sheehy, C. M., III, Streicher, J. W., Cox, C. L., Tovar, R. U. & Reyes-Velasco, J. 2012. Dipsas gaigeae (Gaige's thirst snake) reproduction. Herpetological Review 43: 342-343 - 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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