Adelphicos newmanorum

Adelphicos newmanorum, also known commonly as the Middle American burrowing snake, Newmans' earth snake, and la zacatera roja in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico and known from the Mexican states of Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas.

Etymology

Adelphicos newmanorum is named in honor of American zoologist and his wife Marcella Newman.

Appearance

Adelphicos newmanorum is reddish-brown dorsally, and white ventrally. It is a small snake, average-sized for its genus.

References

Further reading

• 572 pp. ("Adelphicos quadrivirgatus [sic] newmanorum", p. 204).
• (Adelphicos newmanorum, new species, pp. 443–445, Plate 4, Figure 1).