Sonora (snake)
| Sonora | |
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| Western ground snake (Sonora semiannulata) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
| Genus: | Sonora Baird & Girard, 1853 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Chilomeniscus, Chionactis, Contia, Homalocranium, Homalosoma, Lamprosoma, Ogmius, Scolecophis | |
Sonora is a small genus of small harmless colubrid snakes commonly referred to as ground snakes, which are endemic to North America.
Geographic range
They range through central and northern Mexico, and the Southwestern United States.
Habitat
They are sand dwellers.[2]
Species
- Sonora aemula (Cope, 1879) – filetail ground snake
- Sonora annulatus (Baird, 1859) – Colorado Desert shovelnose snake
- Sonora cincta Cope, 1861 – Arizona ground snake, banded burrowing snake, horse snake, red and black ground snake, Sonora ringed snake[1]
- Sonora episcopa Kennicott, 1859 – ground snake
- Sonora fasciata Cope, 1892 – variable sand snake, banded sand snake
- Sonora michoacanensis (Dugès, 1884) – Michoacán ground snake
- Sonora mutabilis Stickel, 1943 – Michoacán ground snake
- Sonora occipitalis (Hallowell, 1854) – western shovelnose snake
- Sonora palarostris (Klauber, 1937) – Sonoran shovelnose snake
- Sonora savagei Cliff, 1954 – Savage's sand snake[3]
- Sonora semiannulata Baird & Girard, 1853 – western ground snake
- Sonora straminea Cope, 1860 – variable sand snake, banded sand snake
- Sonora taylori (Boulenger, 1894) – Taylor's ground snake[3]
References
- ^ a b Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press. 1,105 pp. (in 2 volumes). ("Genus Chilomeniscus", pp. 116–120; "Genus Sonora", pp. 669–692).
- ^ Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Subfamily Colubrinae, Genus Sonora, p. 324).
- ^ a b 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. (Chilomeniscus savagei, p. 233; Sonora taylori, p. 262).
External links
- Genus Sonora at The Reptile Database
Further reading
- 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. (Sonora, new genus, p. 117).
- Conant R (1975). A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. xviii + 429 pp. ISBN 0-395-19979-4 (hardcover), ISBN 0-395-19977-8 (paperback). (Genus Sonora, p. 213).
- 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 Sonora, p. 197).
- 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 (paperback). (Genus Sonora, p. 166).
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