Adelphicos

The genus Adelphicos consists of nine species of New World burrowing snakes.^[1]

Geographic range[]

Species of the genus Adelphicos can be found in the Central American subcontinent, mostly in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala.^[2]

Adelphicos daryi Campbell & , 1982 – Dary's burrowing snake
Adelphicos ibarrorum Campbell & Brodie III, 1988 – Ibarras' burrowing snake
Adelphicos latifasciatum J.D. Lynch & H.M. Smith, 1966 – Oaxaca burrowing snake
Taylor, 1950 – Newmans' earth snake
H.M. Smith, 1942 – Chiapas burrowing snake
Adelphicos quadrivirgatum Jan, 1862 – Middle American burrowing snake
(Fischer, 1885) – Sargi's earth snake
Adelphicos veraepacis Stuart, 1941 - Stuart's burrowing snake
(Cope, 1866) – Cope's earth snake

The specific name, newmanorum (Latin, genitive, plural), is in honor of American zoologist Robert J. Newman and his wife Marcella Newman.^[4]

The specific name, sargii (Latin, genitive, singular), is in honor of Franz Sarg (1840–1920) who served as German Consul in Guatemala.^[4]

^ Adelphicos at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b Catalogue of Life^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Mexico Herpetology Archived 2007-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b 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. (Adelphicos quadrivirgatus newmanorum, p. 189; A. q. sargii, p. 233).

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