Salvadora

Texas patchnose snake Salvadora lineata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Salvadora bairdi Jan, 1860 – Baird's patchnose snake^[3]
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

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).

Taxon identifiers
Salvadora	Wikidata: Q515830 Wikispecies: Salvadora (Colubridae) ADW: Salvadora CoL: 7BZN EoL: 37111 GBIF: 2458635 iNaturalist: 28739 IRMNG: 1311315 ITIS: 174268 NCBI: 94944 Open Tree of Life: 335529 Paleobiology Database: 38150 uBio: 4895442

Species and subspecies

References

Further reading