Sumichrast's garter snake
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Thamnophis
| species = sumichrasti
| authority = (Cope, 1866)
| synonyms = *Eutaenia sumichrasti
{{small|Cope, 1866}}
- Eutaenia phenax
{{small|Cope, 1868}} - Thamnophis haliophis
{{small|Taylor, 1940}} - Thamnophis phenax halophilus
{{small|— H.M. Smith, 1942}} - Thamnophis sumichrasti
{{small|— Liner, 1994}}
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Sumichrast's garter snake (Thamnophis sumichrasti) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico.
Etymology
The specific name sumichrasti is in honor of the Swiss-born Mexican naturalist Adrien Jean Louis François Sumichrast (1828–1882).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}}. (Thamnophis sumichrasti, p. 258).
Geographic range
Habitat
Reproduction
T. sumichrasti is viviparous.
References
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Further reading
- Cope ED (1866). "On the REPTILIA and BATRACHIA of the Sonoran Province of the Nearctic Region". Proceedings of the Acadademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18: 300–314. (Eutaenia sumichrasti, new species, p. 306).
- Heimes, Peter (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. {{ISBN|978-3899731002}}.
- Rossman DA (1966). "Evidence for Conspecificity of the Mexican Garter Snakes Thamnophis phenax (Cope) and Thamnophis sumichrasti (Cope)". Herpetologica 22 (4): 303–305.
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Category:Reptiles described in 1866
Category:Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
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