Salvadora lineata Schmidt 1940
Creators
- 1. Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Ave. San Claudio s / n, Edif. 112 Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, 72570. & Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico, 04510. & Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico, 04510.
- 2. Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico, 04510.
- 3. Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Ave. San Claudio s / n, Edif. 112 Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, 72570.
- 4. Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
Description
Salvadora lineata Schmidt, 1940
Fig. 8
Salvadora lineata Schmidt, 1940: 143–150.
Salvadora grahamiae lineata Hartweg, 1940: 259.
DiagnosisWell-developed rostral scale, elongated and with free edges; 8 or 9 supralabials, fourth and fifth in contact with the eye; 9 to 11 infralabials; preocular divided; a single loreal scale; prenasal scale in contact with or separated from the second supralabial; a second pair of chinshields in contact with each other or separated by a row of scales; 179–202 ventral scales; 81–107 subcaudal scales; maxillary teeth normally 10 +3. Color pattern consists of a pale vertebral line reaching the top of the head, three to five rows of scales wide on the first third of the body and only three posteriorly; head bordered by a pair of continuous dorsolateral lines from the loreal region across the body, dark line on the sixth and seventh dorsal scales; lateral line paler than the well-developed dorsolateral line on the third row of dorsal scales.
Differs from S. grahamiae by having a pair of well-defined lateral lines on the third row of the dorsal scales, extending from the first third of the body and to the cloaca.
EtymologyDerived from the Latin ‘ linea ’, meaning ‘line’, in reference to the conspicuous lateral line.
Type material examinedUNITED STATES • ♀; Texas, Kleberg County, Kingsville; 1938; J.C. Cross; FMNH 28605.
Distribution and conservationUnited States from eastern Texas southward through northwestern Mexico in the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato Querétaro, Michoacán, Hidalgo, Puebla and northern Veracruz (Fig. 8).
This species occurs in several protected natural areas in Mexico and the United States. Mexico and the United States have not listed this species in any protection category, but it is on the IUCN red list as a species of Least Concern.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- J, C
- Family
- Salvadoraceae
- Genus
- Salvadora
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Material sample ID
- FMNH 28605
- Order
- Brassicales
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Schmidt
- Species
- lineata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Salvadora lineata Schmidt, 1940 sec. Hernández-Jiménez, Flores-Villela, Aguilar-Bremauntz & Campbell, 2021
References
- Schmidt K. P. 1940. Notes on Texan snakes of the genus Salvadora. Field Museum of Natural History Zoological Series 24: 143 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 3249
- Hartweg N. 1940. Description of Salvadora intermedia, new species, with remarks on the grahamiae group. Copeia 1940 (4): 256 - 259. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1438583