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Ficimia hardyi

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Species of snake

Ficimia hardyi
Conservation status

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Ficimia
Species: F. hardyi
Binomial name
Ficimia hardyi
Mendoza-Quijano & H.M. Smith, 1993

Ficimia hardyi, also known commonly as Hardy's hooknose snake, Hardy's hook-nosed snake, the Hidalgo hook-nosed snake, and nariz de gancho de Hardy in Mexican Spanish, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico.

Etymology

The specific name, hardyi, is in honor of American herpetologist Laurence McNeil Hardy.

Geographic range

F. hardyi is found in the Mexican states of Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of F. hardyi are forest and shrubland, but it has also been found in cultivated agave fields.

Description

The holotype of F. hardyi has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 28.2 cm (11.1 in), plus a tail length of 7.6 cm (3.0 in).

Behavior

F. hardyi is terrestrial and fossorial.

Reproduction

F. hardyi is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Mendoza-Quijano, F. (2007). "Ficimia hardyi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T63781A12708026. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63781A12708026.en. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  2. ^ Species Ficimia hardyi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  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. (Ficimia hardyi, p. 116).

Further reading

  • Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
  • Hernández-Ibarra, Xóchitl; Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio; Torres-Cervantes, Ricardo; Hernández-Macías, Hector (1999). "Geographic Distribution. Ficimia hardyi (Hardy's Hooknose Snake)". Herpetological Review 30 (4): 235.
  • Mendoza-Quijano F, Smith HM (1993). "A New Species of Hooknose Snake, Ficimia (Reptilia, Serpentes)". Journal of Herpetology 27 (4): 406–410. (Ficimia hardyi, new species). (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).
  • Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio; Hernández-Ibarra, Xóchitl; Torres-Cervantes, Ricardo; Smith, Hobart M. (1999). "External Morphological Variation in Hardy's Hooknose Snake Ficimia hardyi (Squamata: Colubridae)". Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 35 (3): 81–84.


Taxon identifiers
Ficimia hardyi


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