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Baird's Patchnose Snake
Salvadora bairdi
Salvadora bairdi, also known commonly as Baird's patchnose snake and la culebra chata de Baird in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to central Mexico.
From the article Salvadora bairdi on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
In S. bairdi the rostral does not have free edges. The pale vertebral stripe is three dorsal scales wide on the neck, and tapers to one dorsal scale wide on the posterior third of the body.
Range & habitat
S. bairdi is found in the Mexican states of Aguascalientes, southern Chihuahua, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Veracruz.
Wikipedia: “Geographic range”
In human culture
The specific name, bairdi, is in honor of American zoologist Spencer Fullerton Baird.
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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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 28752.