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Ficimia streckeri TAYLOR, 1931

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Tamaulipan or Mexican Hooknose Snake
S: Nariz de Gancho Tamaulipeca 
SynonymFicimia streckeri TAYLOR 1931
Ficimia streckeri — SMITH 1941: 368
Ficimia olivacea streckeri — SMITH 1944
Ficimia streckeri — TAYLOR 1950: 448
Ficimia streckeri — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 216
Ficimia streckeri — LINER 1994
Ficimia streckeri — LINER 2007
Ficimia streckeri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 297 
DistributionUSA (S Texas),
Mexico (Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, E San Luis Potosi, Puebla, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Querétaro)

Type locality: three miles east of Rio Grande City, Texas.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: KU 4140, adult female (Univ. Kansas Museum Herpetological Coll.) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Rostral in contact with frontal; normally no internasals; one postocular; pattern consisting of numerous (38 to 47), narrow, frequently irregular, dark brown or black cross-bars; these covering about one scale length or less, and separated from each other by about three times their own length; bands sometimes very broken posteriorly, remaining evident chiefly as small, middorsal spots (apparently based on 3 specimens, Smith & Taylor 1941: 368).


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after John Kern Strecker, Jr. (1875-1933), American naturalist. 
References
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