Adelphicos quadrivirgatus
Encyclopedia
The Middle American burrowing snake (Adelphicos quadrivirgatus) is a species
of dipsadine colubrid
snake.
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of dipsadine colubrid
Colubrid
A colubrid is a member of the snake family Colubridae. This broad classification of snakes includes about two-thirds of all snake species on earth. The earliest species of the snake family date back to the Oligocene epoch. With 304 genera and 1,938 species, Colubridae is the largest snake family...
snake.
Subspecies
- Newman's earth snake, Adelphicos quadrivirgatus newmanorum TaylorEdward Harrison TaylorEdward Harrison Taylor was an American herpetologist from Kansas.He was born in Maysville, Missouri and studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, graduating with a B.A. in 1912. Subsequently, he went to the Philippines, where at first he held a teacher's post in a village in central...
, 1950 - Jan's earth snake, Adelphicos quadrivirgatus quadrivirgatus JanGiorgio JanGiorgio Jan was an Italian taxonomist, zoologist, botanist, herpetologist, and writer. He is also known as Georg Jan or Georges Jan....
, 1862 - Sargi's earth snake, Adelphicos quadrivirgatus sargii (Fischer, 1885)
- Cope's earth snake, Adelphicos quadrivirgatus visoninus (CopeEdward Drinker CopeEdward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen...
, 1866)