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Western Groundsnake - Sonora semiannulata
Variable Groundsnake -
Sonora semiannulata semiannulata
Culebrilla de Tierra
Baird and Girard, 1853 |
| (The Variable Ground Snakes shown below have been tentatively described as Sonora mosaueri by Cox et al, 2018) |
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| Adult, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur © Ivan Vershynin | |
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| Snake in habitat, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur © Ivan Vershynin | |
References:
Grismer, L. Lee. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California, Including Its Pacific Islands and the Islands in the Sea of Cortés. The University of California Press, 2002. McPeak, Ron H. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California. Sea Challengers, 2000. Samuel M. McGinnis and Robert C. Stebbins. Peterson Field Guide to Western Reptiles & Amphibians. 4th Edition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2018. Stebbins, Robert C. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians. 3rd Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. The Reptile Database San Diego Natural History Museum (Synopsis and taxonomic revision of three genera in the snake tribe Sonorini. Christian L. Cox, Alison R. Davis Rabosky, Iris A. Holmes, Jacobo Reyes-Valasco, Corey E. Roelke, Eric N. Smith, Oscar Flores-Villela, Jimmy A. GcGuire and Jonathan A. Campbell. Journal of Natural History, 2018 Vol. 52, Nos. 13-16, 945-988. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2018.1449912) |
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