Adelphicos quadrivirgatum explained
Adelphicos quadrivirgatum, the Middle American burrowing snake, is a species of dipsadine colubrid snake, endemic to Mexico and Central America.
Geographic range
A. quadrivirgatum is found in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico; in Mexico, its range extends southward from the states of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas to San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Puebla, Oaxaca, and Chiapas.
Habitat
A. quadrivirgatum inhabits tropical and subtropical wet and moist forest at elevations from sea level to 1740m (5,710feet). It is often found beneath logs.
Description
A. quadrivirgatum is a small snake. Adult females may attain a total length of 36.5cm (14.4inches), which includes a tail 5.5cm (02.2inches) long. Dorsally, it is pale reddish brown, with four or five blackish narrow stripes. Ventrally, it is whitish with a brown stripe along the middle of the tail.
Diet
A. quadrivirgatum preys mainly on earthworms.
Reproduction
A. quadrivirgatum is oviparous.
Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I–XX. (Atractus quadrivirgatus, pp. 312–313).
- Heimes, Peter (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 572 pp. .
- Jan G (1862). "Enumerazione sistematico delle specie d'ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae ". Archivio per la Zoologia l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia 2: 1–76. (Adelphicos quadrivirgatum, new species, p. 19). (in Italian).
- McCranie . James R. . 2015 . A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed . Zootaxa . 3931 . 3 . 352–386 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.2.
