Salvadora deserticola SCHMIDT, 1940

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Big Bend Patchnose Snake G: Wüsten-Pflasternasennatter S: Culebra Chata de Montaña
Synonym	Salvadora hexalepis deserticola SCHMIDT 1940 Salvadora hexalepis celeris SMITH 1941: 9 Salvadora hexalepis celeris — SMITH & TAYLOR 1945: 124 Salvadora hexalepis deserticola — BOGERT 1945 Salvadora hexalepis deserticola — ZWEIFEL & NORRIS 1955 Salvadora deserticola — BOGERT & DEGENHARDT 1961 Salvadora hexalepis deserticola — HARDY 1969: 198 Salvadora hexalepis deserticola — STEBBINS 1985: 185 Salvadora deserticola — TANNER 1985: 642 Salvadora deserticola — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 193 Salvadora deserticola — LINER 1994 Salvadora hexalepis deserticola — CROTHER 2000 Salvadora deserticola — DIXON 2000 Salvadora deserticola — TENNANT & BARTLETT 2000: 306 Salvadora deserticola — TENNANT 2003: 192 Salvadora deserticola — ERNST & ERNST 2003: 305 Salvadora hexalepis deserticola — LINER 2007 Salvadora hexalepis deserticola — CROTHER et al. 2012 Salvadora deserticola — WALLACH et al. 2014: 660 Salvadora deserticola — HEIMES 2016: 146 Salvadora deserticola — LEMOS-ESPINAL & SMITH 2020 Salvadora deserticola — BASSETT & PANDELIS 2024
Distribution	USA (SE Arizona, SW New Mexico, SW Texas), Mexico (E Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Coahuila, Durango) Type locality: Texas, Brewster County, near Chisos Mountains, Government Spring.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: FMNH 26615 Holotype: USNM 40043 [Salvadora hexalepis celeris]
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Allied to Salvadora hexalepis hexalepis in the separation of the posterior chin shields, enlargement of the rostral, nine upper labials, in having keeled supra-anal scales, and in pale grayish coloration; distinguished by the uniformly single loreal, lower ventral count, and the situation of the narrow lateral line on the fourth scale row instead of on the third and fourth [from SCHMIDT 1940]. Additional details (1462 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Subspecies: Salvadora hexalepis deserticola has been elevated to valid species. Recognition of the species S. deserticola was made without justification by Bogert and Degenhardt (1961). However, Bogert (1945), describes characters justifying the distrinction and states that there are no intergrades. Distribution: See map in HERNÁNDEZ-JIMÉNEZ et al. 2021: Fig. 6.
Etymology	The species name is derived from the Latin words ‘desertum’, which means ‘desert’, and ‘icola’, which means ‘inhabitant’, in reference to the habitat at the type locality.
References	Bassett, L., & Pandelis, G. 2024. Updated geographic distributions for Texas reptiles. Reptiles & Amphibians, 31(1): e21492-e21492 - get paper here Bogert, Charles M. 1945. Two additional races of the patch-nosed snake, Salvadora hexalepis. American Museum Novitates (1285): 1-14 - get paper here Bogert, Charles M.; Degenhardt, William G. 1961. An addition to the fauna of the United States, the Chihuahua Ridge-nosed rattlesnake in New Mexico. American Museum Novitates (2064): 1-15 - get paper here Conant,R. & Collins,J.T. 1991. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern/Central North America, 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin (Boston/New York), xx + 450 p. Crother, B. I. (ed.) 2012. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92 Davis DR, LaDuc TJ 2018. Amphibians and reptiles of C. E. Miller Ranch and the Sierra Vieja, Chihuahuan Desert, Texas, USA. ZooKeys 735: 97-130 - get paper here De los Reyes, M N; Lazcano, D & Espinosa-Trevino, A 2018. Geographic Distribution: Salvadora deserticola (Big Bend Patch-nosed Snake). Herpetological Review 49 (3): 507 - get paper here Dixon, James R. 2000. Amphibians and reptiles of Texas, second edition. Texas A&M University Press, 421 pp. Hardy, L.M., & McDiarmid, R.W. 1969. The amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 18 (3): 39-252. - get paper here Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp Hernandez T, Herr MW, Stevens S, Cork K, Medina-Nava C, Vialpando CJ, Warfel T, Fields N, Brodie C, Graham SP 2019. New distribution records for amphibians and reptiles in eastern Chihuahua, Mexico. Check List 15(1): 79-86 - get paper here Hernández-Jiménez, C. A., Flores-Villela, O., Aguilar-Bremauntz, A., & Campbell, J. A. 2021. Phylogenetic relationships based on morphological data and taxonomy of the genus Salvadora Baird & Girard, 1853 (Reptilia, Colubridae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 764: 85-118 - get paper here Jameson, David H.;Flury, Alvin G. 1949. The reptiles and amphibians of the Sierra Vieja Range of southwestern Texas. Texas Journal of Science 1 (2): 54-77 - get paper here Lazcano D, Nevárez-de los Reyes M, García-Padilla E, Johnson JD, Mata-Silva V, DeSantis DL, Wilson LD. 2019. The herpetofauna of Coahuila, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13(2) [General Section]: 31–94 (e189) - get paper here Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR 2020. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico with a conservation status summary and comparisons with neighboring states. ZooKeys 931: 85-114 - get paper here Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Gadsden-Esparza H, Valdez-Lares R, Woolrich-Piña GA 2018. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Durango, Mexico, with comparisons with adjoining states. ZooKeys 748: 65-87 - get paper here Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Rorabaugh JC 2019. A conservation checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sonora, Mexico, with updated species lists. ZooKeys 829: 131-160 - 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 Nevárez-de los Reyes; Manuel, David Lazcano, Javier Banda-Leal and Ian Recchio 2014. Notes on Mexican Herpetofauna 22: Herpetofauna of the Continental Portion of the Municipality of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 49(8):105-115 - get paper here Schmidt,K.P. 1940. Notes on Texan snakes of the genus Salvadora. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Series 24 (12): 143-150 - get paper here Smith, H.M. 1941. Further notes on Mexican snakes of the genus Salvadora. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 99 (20): 1-12 - get paper here Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston Tanner, Wilmer W. 1985. Snakes of Western Chihuahua. Great Basin Naturalist 45 (4): 615-676 - get paper here Tennant, A. 2003. Snakes of North America - Eastern and Central Regions, revised edition. Lone Star Books, 605 pp. Turner, D. S., Van Devender, T. R., Hale, S. F., Zach, R., Martínez, R., Van Devender, R. W., ... & Paholski, C. 2022. Amphibians and reptiles of Rancho Las Playitas area, Sonora, Mexico. Sonoran Herpetologist, 35, 50-59 - 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. Zweifel,R.G. and Norris,K.S. 1955. Contributions to the herpetology of Sonora, Mexico:Descriptions of new subspecies of snakes (Micruroides euryxanthus and Lampropeltis getulus) and miscellaneous collecting notes. American Midland Naturalist 54: 230-249 - get paper here
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