Sumichrast's Garter Snake articles - Encyclopedia of Life

Distribution

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Continent: Middle-America
Distribution: Mexico (Chiapas, Queretaro, Tabasco, Puebla, Veracruz)
Type locality: Orizava, Mexcio

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

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

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

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

T. sumichrasti is viviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c Species Thamnophis sumichrasti at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ 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).

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