Sonora (genus)

Sonora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Sonora
Baird & Girard, 1853
Synonyms

Chionactis, Contia, Homalocranium, Homalosoma, Lamprosoma, Ogmius, Scolecophis[1]

Sonora is a small genus of small harmless colubrid snakes commonly referred to as ground snakes, which are endemic to North America.

Geographic range

They range through central and northern Mexico, and the Southwestern United States.

Habitat

They are sand dwellers.[2]

Species

References

  1. Wright, A.H., and A.A. Wright. 1957. Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Comstock. Ithaca and London. 1,105 pp. (in 2 volumes) ("Genus Sonora", p. 669 + Figures 21, 23, 24 on pp. 73, 77, 79, respectively.)
  2. Goin, C.J.; O.B. Goin; G.R. Zug. 1978. Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. W.H. Freeman. San Francisco. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Subfamily Colubrinae, Genus Sonora, p. 324.)

Further reading


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