Salvadora (snake)

Salvadora
Texas patchnose snake Salvadora lineata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Colubrinae
Genus:	Salvadora Baird & Girard, 1853

Salvadora is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly called patchnose snakes or patch-nosed snakes, which are endemic to the western United States and Mexico. They are characterized by having a distinctive scale on the tip of the snout.

Species and subspecies

The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.

• Salvadora bairdi Jan, 1860 – Baird's patchnose snake
• Salvadora deserticola Schmidt, 1940 – Big Bend patchnose snake
• Salvadora grahamiae Baird & Girard, 1853 – mountain patchnose snake
• Salvadora gymnorhachis Hernández-Jiménez, Flores-Villela & Campbell, 2019
• Salvadora hexalepis (Cope, 1866) – western patchnose snake
  • Salvadora hexalepis hexalepis (Cope, 1866) – desert patchnose snake
  • Salvadora hexalepis klauberi Bogert, 1945 – Baja California patchnose snake
  • Salvadora hexalepis mojavensis Bogert, 1945 – Mojave patchnose snake
  • Salvadora hexalepis virgultea Bogert, 1935 – coast patchnose snake
• Salvadora intermedia Hartweg, 1940 – Oaxacan patchnose snake
• Salvadora lemniscata (Cope, 1895) – Pacific patchnose snake
• Salvadora lineata Schmidt, 1940 – Texas patchnose snake
• Salvadora mexicana (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – Mexican patchnose snake

References

Further reading

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• Baird SF, Girard CF (1853). Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part I.—Serpents. Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution. xvi + 172 pp. (Salvadora, new genus, p. 104).
• Hernández-Jiménez CA, Flores-Villela O, Aguilar-Bremauntz A, Campbell JA (2021). “Phylogenetic relationships based on morphological data and taxonomy of the genus Salvadora Baird & Girard, 1853”. European Journal of Taxonomy 764: 85–118.
• Schmidt KP, Davis DD (1941). Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 365 pp. (Genus Salvadora, p. 135).
• Smith HM, Brodie ED Jr (1982). Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. New York: Golden Press. 240 pp. ISBN 0-307-13666-3. (Genus Salvadora, p. 194).
• Stebbins RC (2003). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Third Edition. The Peterson Field Guide Series ®. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. xiii + 533 pp. ISBN 978-0-395-98272-3. (Genus Salvadora, p. 356).
• Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock. 1,105 pp. (in 2 volumes) (Genus Salvadora, p. 644).
• Zim HS, Smith HM (1956). Reptiles and Amphibians: A Guide to Familiar Species: A Golden Nature Guide. New York: Simon and Schuster. 160 pp. (Genus Salvadora, pp. 88, 156).

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