Salvadora (snake)

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.

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

Salvadora bairdi

Species and subspecies

The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.^[2]

• Salvadora bairdi Jan, 1860 – Baird's patchnose snake^[3]
• Salvadora deserticola Schmidt, 1940 – Big Bend patchnose snake
• Salvadora grahamiae Baird & Girard, 1853 – mountain patchnose snake
• Salvadora gymnorhachis Hernández-Jiménez, Flores-Villela & Campbell, 2019
• Salvadora hexalepis (Cope, 1866) – western patchnose snake
  • Salvadora hexalepis hexalepis (Cope, 1866) – desert patchnose snake
  • Salvadora hexalepis klauberi Bogert, 1945 – Baja California patchnose snake
  • Salvadora hexalepis mojavensis Bogert, 1945 – Mojave patchnose snake
  • Salvadora hexalepis virgultea Bogert, 1935 – coast patchnose snake
• Salvadora intermedia Hartweg, 1940 – Oaxacan patchnose snake
• Salvadora lemniscata (Cope, 1895) – Pacific patchnose snake
• Salvadora lineata Schmidt, 1940 – Texas patchnose snake
• Salvadora mexicana (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – Mexican patchnose snake