Thamnophis ahumadai

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Natricinae
Genus: Thamnophis
Species: Thamnophis ahumadai

Name

Thamnophis ahumadai Grünwald, Mendoza-Portilla, Grünwald, Montaño-Ruvalcaba, Franz-Chávez, García-Vázquez & Reyes-Velasco, 2024: 162

• Holotype: INIRENA 2933 (original field number CIG-1612), adult ♂, collected by Christoph I. Grünwald, María del Carmen G. Mendoza-Portilla, Iván Ahumada-Carrillo and Ginny N. Weatherman on 23 August 2019.
• Type locality: “under a log in a marshy meadow near a pond, 2.8 km E of Cumbre de Guadalupe, Municipio de Cuautla, Jalisco, Mexico (20.168991, -104.684925, 2,353 m asl; datum = WGS84)”.

References

Primary references

• Grünwald, C.I., Mendoza-Portilla, M.C.G., Grünwald, A.J., Montaño-Ruvalcaba, C., Franz-Chávez, H., García-Vázquez, U.O. & Reyes-Velasco, J. 2024. A new species of Thamnophis (Serpentes, Colubridae) from Jalisco, Mexico, with a discussion on the phylogeny, taxonomy, and distribution of snakes related to Thamnophis scalaris. Herpetozoa 37: 157–179. DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e122213 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Ahumada’s Alpine Garter Snake