Salvadora (snake)

Salvadora
Texas patchnose snake
Salvadora lineata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Salvadora
Baird & Girard, 1853
Salvadora bairdi

Salvadora is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly called patchnose snakes or patch-nosed snakes, which are endemic to the western United States and Mexico.[1] They are characterized by having a distinctive scale on the tip of the snout.

  1. ^ Conant, Roger (1975). A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. xviii + 429 pp. + Plates 1-48. ISBN 0-395-19979-4 (hardcover), ISBN 0-395-19977-8 (paperback). (Salvadora, pp. 187-189, Figure 42 + Plate 31 + Maps 143, 146).