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Ficimia variegata (GÜNTHER, 1858)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Tehuantepec Hooknose Snake
S: Nariz de Gancho de Tehuantepec 
SynonymAmblymetopon variegata GÜNTHER 1858
Ficimia variegata — GARMAN 1884: 84
Ficimia variegata — SMITH 1941: 365
Ficimia variegata — LINER 1994
Ficimia variegata — LINER 2007
Ficimia variegata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 297 
DistributionMexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Hidalgo)

Type locality: "Mexico." Restricted to Guichicovi, Oaxaca, Méxcio, by H.M. Smith and Taylor, 1950a: 338.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.1.5.49, a 177 mm female (M. Sallé), and BMNH 1946.1.6.78, a 385-394 mm female, (H. Cuming). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Rostral in contact with frontal; apparently no internasals normally; two postoculars normally; pattern consisting of 45 to 56(?) band-like blotches on body, about 16 on tail; bands covering one and one-half to two scale lengths medially; spaces between bands about equal to length of bands (based on 1 specimen, Smith & Taylor 1941: 366).


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin variegata, colored; party colored, variegated. [“...Above reddish white, with 56 black narrow cross bars, two on the neck larger than the remainder; crown of head with symmetrical black markings; sides black-spotted...”]. 
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
  • Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F.
  • Garman, Samuel 1884. The reptiles and batrachians of North America. Mem. Mus. comp. Zool, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 8 (3): xxxiv + 185 pp. [1883] [CNAH reprint 10] - get paper here
  • Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine snakes of the British Museum. London, I - XVI, 1 - 281 - get paper here
  • Hardy L M 1990. Ficimia Gray. Southern hook-nosed snakes. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 471: 1-5 - get paper here
  • Hardy, Laurence M. 1981. Ficimia variegata. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (269): 1-2 - get paper here
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • 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
  • Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - 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
  • Smith, Hobart M.; Taylor, Edward H. 1941. A review of the snakes of the genus Ficimia. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 31 (8): 356-368 - 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
  • Vite-Silva, Victor D.; Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista y Uriel Hernández-Salinas 2010. Diversidad de anfibios y reptiles de la Reserva de la Biosfera Barranca de Metztitlán, Hidalgo, México Diversity of amphibians and reptiles from the Barranca de Metztitlán Biosphera Reserve in Hidalgo, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 81: 473- 485 - 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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