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Ficimia hardyi MENDOZA-QUIJANO & SMITH, 1993

IUCN Red List - Ficimia hardyi - Endangered, EN
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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Hardy's Hook-nosed Snake
S: Nariz de Gancho de Hardy 
SynonymFicimia hardyi MENDOZA-QUIJANO & SMITH 1993
Ficimia hardyi — FLORES-VILLELA & CANSECO-MÁRQUEZ 2004
Ficimia hardyi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 296 
DistributionMexico (Hidalgo, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí [07790])

Type locality: 3.8 Km NW Zoquiapán (~10 Km W Zacualtipán), municipality of Metztitlán, Hidalgo, México. Elevation: 1480 m.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MZFC 4877. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A member of the genus Ficimia, having an upturned, sharp-edged rostral contacting the frontal; 17 midbody, smooth scale rows; single apical pits; no anal ridges; anal divided; nasal fused with first supralabial; loreal fused with prefrontal. Differing from all other species of the genus in having a combination of 43-47 dark-edged, light-centered dorsal blotches on body, 2-4 scales long at mid-line, 17-22 blotches on tail in males, 15 in only female; no internasals; two postoculars; posterior chinshields in broad medial contact; ventrals 130-136 in males, 140 in the female; caudals 44-46 in males, 40 in the female (MENDOZA-QUIJANO & SMITH 1993).


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Laurence M. Hardy, who studied the genus Ficimia intensively. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Fernández-Badillo, Leonardo & Irene Goyenechea-Mayer Goyenechea 2010. Anfibios y reptiles del valle del Mezquital, Hidalgo, México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 81: 705- 712
  • Fernández-Badillo, Leonardo; Norma Leticia Manríquez-Morán; Jesús Martín Castillo-Cerón & Irene Goyenechea 2016. Análisis herpetofaunístico de la zona árida del estado de Hidalgo. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 156–170 - get paper here
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • Hernández-Ibarra,X. et al. 1999. Geographic distribution: Ficimia hardyi. Herpetological Review 30 (4): 235 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Woolrich-Piña GA 2018. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with comparisons with adjoining states. ZooKeys 753: 83-106 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal, Julio A. and James R. Dixon 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí. Eagle Mountain Publishing, xii + 300 pp. - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal, Julio A., Geoffrey R. Smith 2015. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Check List 11 (3): 1642 - 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
  • Ramirez-Bautista, Aurelio; Hernandez-Ibarra, Xochitl; Smith, Hobart M. 1999. External Morphological Variation in Hardy's Hooknose Snake Ficimia hardyi (Squamata: Colubridae). Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 35 (3): 81 - get paper here
  • Terán-Juárez, Sergio A., Elí García Padilla, Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson and Larry David Wilson. 2016. The herpetofauna of Tamaulipas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (1): 43–113 - 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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