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Ibarra's Burrowing Snake
Adelphicos ibarrorum
Adelphicos ibarrorum is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Guatemala.
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Description
The largest known specimen and the holotype of A. ibarrorum is a female measuring 521 mm (20.5 in) in total length, including a tail length of 58 mm (2.3 in).
Range & habitat
A. ibarrorum is only known from the highlands of south-central Guatemala in the region of its type locality near Chichicastenango.
Wikipedia: “Geographic range”
What it does
A fossorial snake, A. ibarrorum is known from pine-oak forest and forest edge habitats, at elevations of 2,000–2,100 m (6,600–6,900 ft) above sea level.
Wikipedia: “Behavior and habitat”
In human culture
The specific name, ibarrorum (Latin, genitive, plural), is in honor of the Guatemalan Ibarra family, especially Jorge Alfonso Ibarra (1921–2000) and Germán A. Ibarra, both conservationists and naturalists.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 27408.