Salvadora (genus)

Taxobox
name = Patchnose snakes

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image_caption = Texas Patchnose Snake
"Salvadora grahamiae lineata"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Colubridae
genus = "Salvadora"
genus_authority = Baird & Girard, 1853

"Salvadora" is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly called patchnose snakes. They are characterized by having a distinctive scale on the tip of their snout.

Species

*Baird's Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora bairdi" (Jan, 1860)
*Big Bend Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora deserticola" (Schmidt, 1940)
*Texas Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora grahamiae"
**Mountain Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora grahamiae grahamiae" (Baird & Girard, 1853)
**Texas Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora grahamiae lineata" (Schmidt, 1940)
*Western Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora hexalepis"
**Mojave Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora hexalepis mojavensis" (Bogert, 1945)
**Desert Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora hexalepis hexalepis" (Cope, 1866)
**Baja California Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora hexalepis klauberi" (Bogert, 1945)
**Coast Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora hexalepis virgultea" (Bogert, 1936)
*Oaxacan Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora intermedia" (Hartweg, 1940)
*Pacific Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora lemniscata" (Cope, 1895)
*Mexican Patchnose Snake, "Salvadora mexicana" (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)

References

*EMBL genus|genus=Salvadora