Sumichrast's garter snake

Sumichrast's garter snake
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Thamnophis
Species:	T. sumichrasti
Binomial name
Thamnophis sumichrasti (Cope, 1866)
Synonyms[2]
Eutaenia sumichrasti Cope, 1866 Eutaenia phenax Cope, 1868 Thamnophis haliophis Taylor, 1940 Thamnophis phenax halophilus — H.M. Smith, 1942 Thamnophis sumichrasti — Liner, 1994

Sumichrast's garter snake (Thamnophis sumichrasti) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico.

Etymology

The specific name sumichrasti is in honor of the Swiss-born Mexican naturalist Adrien Jean Louis François Sumichrast (1828–1882).[3]

Geographic range

Thamnophis sumichrasti is found in the Mexican states of Chiapas, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, and Veracruz.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of T. sumichrasti are freshwater wetlands and forest.[1]

Reproduction

T. sumichrasti is viviparous.[2]

References

1. Canseco-Márquez, L.; Flores-Villela, O. (2007). "Thamnophis sumichrasti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T63994A12728045. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63994A12728045.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
2. Species Thamnophis sumichrasti 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. (Thamnophis sumichrasti, p. 258).

Further reading

• Cope ED (1866). "On the REPTILIA and BATRACHIA of the Sonoran Province of the Nearctic Region". Proceedings of the Acadademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18: 300–314. (Eutaenia sumichrasti, new species, p. 306).
• Heimes, Peter (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
• Rossman DA (1966). "Evidence for Conspecificity of the Mexican Garter Snakes Thamnophis phenax (Cope) and Thamnophis sumichrasti (Cope)". Herpetologica 22 (4): 303–305.