''Adelphicos'' is a

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burrowing snakes in the

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Colubridae Colubridae (, commonly known as colubrids , from , 'snake') is a family of snakes. With 249 genera, it is the largest snake family. The earliest fossil species of the family date back to the Late Eocene epoch, with earlier origins suspected. C ...

. The genus consists of nine

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Geographic range

Species of the genus ''Adelphicos'' can be found in

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

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Belize Belize is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a maritime boundary with Honduras to the southeast. P ...

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Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...

Species

There are nine species which are recognized as being valid. *'' Adelphicos daryi'' – Dary's burrowing snake *''

Adelphicos ibarrorum ''Adelphicos ibarrorum'' is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Guatemala. Etymology The specific name, ''ibarrorum'' (Latin, genitive, plural), is in honor of the Guatemalan Ibarra family, especially Jorge Al ...

'' – Ibarras' burrowing snake *''

Adelphicos latifasciatum ''Adelphicos latifasciatum'', the Oaxaca burrowing snake, is a colubrid snake described by :fr:John Douglas Lynch, John D. Lynch and Hobart Muir Smith in 1966. The Oaxaca burrowing snake lives in the humus of the pine and cloud forests of the Ch ...

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Oaxaca Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 munici ...

burrowing snake *'' Adelphicos newmanorum'' – Middle American burrowing snake *''

Adelphicos nigrilatum ''Adelphicos nigrilatum'', the burrowing snake, is a species of colubrid snake Snakes are elongated limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (). Cladistically squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in over ...

'' – burrowing snake *'' Adelphicos quadrivirgatum'' – Middle American burrowing snake *'' Adelphicos sargii'' – Sargi's earth snake *'' Adelphicos veraepacis'' – Stuart's burrowing snake *'' Adelphicos visoninum'' – Middle American burrowing snake

Etymology

The generic name comes from the Greek "adelphikos," meaning "brotherly." The

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, ''newmanorum'' (Latin, genitive, plural), is in honor of American zoologist Robert J. Newman and his wife Marcella Newman. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Adelphicos quadrivirgatus newmanorum'', p. 189; ''A. q. sargii'', p. 233). The specific name, ''sargii'' (Latin, genitive, singular), is in honor of Franz Sarg (1840–1920) who served as German Consul in Guatemala.

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