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Adelphicos nigrilatus
Small snake (Family Colubridae), brown with dark stripes and some iridescence. Bright orange on the underside. The last 3 or 4 cm of the underside of the tail have a zig-zag black line.
Forested (pine and manzanilla) area with open fields on the outskirts of San Cristobal de Las Casas, 2,200 meters.
This picture from Belize also shows the iridescence of the scales on this species: http://tropicalnaturalhistory.org/2012/0...
Can there be more info? Or is there not much known about this snake? Thank you :)
Thank you Kranti and Luis, turned out to be a Colubrid and not a Boa. Fooled me :). It may be the Chiapas Burrowing Snake, if such a thing even exists.
It definitely could be, I'm having a hard time finding information on any of the species in the genus. It's definitely in the genus Adelphicos, if you think it's the other species I wouldn't argue with you (I can't read that link haha)! Anytime I try Googling the other species in the genus, it just keeps giving me the same photos of A. quadrivirgatus so that definitely seems to be the more common species, but that doesn't mean you didn't find a less common one :)
Thank you Ashley!
http://lythrochila.blogspot.mx/2014/01/a...
This article mentions finding a snake just like mine (except the venter was more yellow) in San Cristobal de Las Casas. It was identified as Adelphicos nigrilatus veraepacis, the Chiapas Burrowing Snake and gives some local common names (which I have never heard). Is this a valid species? What do you think of it as the ID for this one?
Spotted on Nov 11, 2006
Submitted on Sep 30, 2012
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