Dipsas gaigeae
{{Short description|Species of snake}}
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| status = LC
| status_system=IUCN3.1
| status_ref=Ponce-Campos P, García Aguayo A (2007). [https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/63771/12714447 Dipsas gaigeae]. In: IUCN 2020. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022.2.
| genus = Dipsas
| species = gaigeae
| authority = (Oliver, 1937)
| synonyms = *Sibynomorphus gaigeae
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Dipsas gaigeae, also known commonly as Gaige's thirst snail-eater, Gaige's thirst snake, and zicatlinán in Mexican Spanish, is a species of non-venomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico.{{NRDB species|genus=Dipsas|species=gaigeae|accessdate=13 November 2014}}
Etymology
The specific name, gaigeae, is in honor of American herpetologist Helen Beulah Thompson Gaige.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Gaige's Thirst Snake Dipsas gaigeae, p. 96).
Geographic range
Habitat
Behavior
D. gaigeae is fully arboreal.
Reproduction
D. gaigeae is oviparous.
References
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Further reading
- Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. {{ISBN|978-3899731002}}.
- Kofron CP (1982). "A Review of the Mexican Snail-eating Snakes, Dipsas brevifacies and Dipsas gaigeae". Journal of Herpetology 16 (3): 270–286.
- Liner EA (1994). Scientific and Common Names for the Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanish: Nombres Científicos y Comunes en Ingles y Español de los Anfibios y de los Reptiles de México. Herpetological Circular No. 23. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). iii + 113 pp. {{ISBN|978-0916984328}}. (in English and Spanish).
- Oliver JA (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. (Sibynomorphus gaigeae, new species, pp. 22–23).
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Category:Snakes of North America
Category:Endemic reptiles of Mexico
Category:Reptiles described in 1937
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