Salvadora hexalepis klauberi Bogert, 1945

Hernández-Jiménez, Carlos A., Flores-Villela, Oscar, Aguilar-Bremauntz, Aranzazú & Campbell, Jonathan A., 2021, Phylogenetic relationships based on morphological data and taxonomy of the genus Salvadora Baird & Girard, 1853 (Reptilia, Colubridae), European Journal of Taxonomy 764 (1), pp. 85-118 : 102-103

Salvadora hexalepis klauberi Bogert, 1945

Fig. 9

Salvadora hexalepis klauberi Bogert, 1945: 14 .

Diagnosis

Nine supralabials, generally fifth and sixth in contact with the eye; 10–11 infralabials; suboculars normally absent; 180–203 ventral scales; 78–99 subcaudal scales; tail 21 to 26% of total length; 12 +3 maxillary teeth; a pale vertebral line three to five rows wide contacting the parietal region, bordered by a pair of dark dorsolateral lines up to four rows wide extending from the temporal region to the margins between the fifth and fourth rows of scales, lateral lines one or two scales wide fused with the dorsolateral lines on first third of the body.

Differs from S. h. mojavensis by lacking suboculars, differs from S. h. hexalepis by having fifth and sixth supralabials bordering the eye and differs from S. h. virgultea by having 12 +3 maxillary teeth.

Etymology

Dedicated to Laurence Monroe Klauber.

Type material

MEXICO • ♂; Baja California Sur, Cape San Lucas ; 6 Aug. 1933; Fred Lewis leg.; Collection of L.M. Klauber No. 20912 .

Distribution

Endemic to Mexico, present from northern Baja California southward through Baja California Sur, including the San José and Espíritu Santo Islands ( Fig. 9 ).

Figures

Fig. 9. Locality records of Salvadora hexalepis (Cope, 1866) and its subspecies. Blue dots represent S. h. mojavensis Bogert, 1945; yellow dots S. h. virgultea Bogert, 1935; red dots S. h. hexalepis (Cope, 1866) and green dots S. h. klauberi Bogert, 1945.