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Dipsas gaigeae

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Species of snake

Dipsas gaigeae
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Dipsas
Species: D. gaigeae
Binomial name
Dipsas gaigeae
(Oliver, 1937)
Synonyms
  • Sibynomorphus gaigeae
    Oliver, 1937
  • Dipsas gaigeae
    — Liner, 1994

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.

Etymology

The specific name, gaigeae, is in honor of American herpetologist Helen Beulah Thompson Gaige.

Geographic range

D. gaigeae is found in western Mexico, in the states of Colima, Guerrero, and Jalisco.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of D. gaigeae, is forest.

Behavior

D. gaigeae is fully arboreal.

Reproduction

D. gaigeae is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Ponce-Campos P, García Aguayo A (2007). Dipsas gaigeae. In: IUCN 2020. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022.2.
  2. ^ Dipsas gaigeae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 13 November 2014.
  3. 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).

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).


Taxon identifiers
Dipsas gaigeae


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