Salvadora (snake)
Genus of snakes
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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.
| Salvadora | |
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| Texas patchnose snake Salvadora lineata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
| Genus: | Salvadora Baird & Girard, 1853 |
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 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
