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Hypsiglena Ochrorhyncha
''Hypsiglena'' is a genus of small, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes commonly referred to as night snakes. The genus consists of nine species, and subspecies have been maintained pending further investigation.Mulcahy DG, Martínez-Gómez JE, Aguirre-León G, Cervantes-Pasqualli JA, Zug GR (2014). "Rediscovery of an endemic vertebrate from the remote Islas Revillagigedo in the eastern Pacific Ocean: The Clarión Nightsnake, with conservation and systematic implications". ''PLOS ONE'' 9 (5): e97682. Species and subspecies The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid. *''Hypsiglena affinis'' Boulenger, 1894 - Boulenger's night snake *'' Hypsiglena catalinae'' W.W. Tanner, 1966 - Santa Catalina night snake *'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea'' Cope, 1860 - Sonoran night snake **'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola'' W.W. Tanner, 1966 - desert night snake **''Hypsiglena chlorophaea loreala'' W.W. Tanner, 1944 - Mesa Verde night snake **''Hypsiglena chlorophaea tiburone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypsiglena Jani
''Hypsiglena jani'', commonly known as the Texas night snake or the Chihuahuan night snake, is a small species of mildly venomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to the southwestern United States and adjacent northeastern Mexico. Etymology The epithet, ''jani'', is in honor of Italian taxonomist Giorgio Jan. Description ''H. jani'' grows from in total length (including tail), record . Conant R (1975). ''A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. xviii + 429 pp. + Plates 1-48. (hardcover), (paperback). (''Hypsiglena torquata texana'', p. 217 + Plate 33 + Map 170). It is typically a light gray or tan in color, with dark brown or dark gray blotching down the back, and has an unmarked underside. It has smooth dorsal scales. The eye has a vertically elliptical pupil. ''H. jani'' is rear-fanged, and is considered to be venomous, though it is not dangerous to humans. Behavior As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Catalina Island, California
Santa Catalina Island ( xgf, Pimuu'nga or ; es, Isla Santa Catalina) is a rocky island off the coast of Southern California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. The island name is often shortened to Catalina Island or just Catalina. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Long Beach, California. The highest point on the island is Mount Orizaba (). Geologically, Santa Catalina is part of the Channel Islands (California), Channel Islands of California archipelago and is the easternmost of the Channel Islands. Politically, Catalina Island is part of Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County in District 4. Most of the land on the island is unincorporated area, unincorporated (governed by the county). Catalina was originally inhabited and used by many different Southern California Tribes, including the Tongva, who called the island or and referred to themselves as or . The first Europeans to arrive on Catalina cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypsiglena Jani Dunklei
''Hypsiglena'' is a genus of small, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes commonly referred to as night snakes. The genus consists of nine species, and subspecies have been maintained pending further investigation.Mulcahy DG, Martínez-Gómez JE, Aguirre-León G, Cervantes-Pasqualli JA, Zug GR (2014). "Rediscovery of an endemic vertebrate from the remote Islas Revillagigedo in the eastern Pacific Ocean: The Clarión Nightsnake, with conservation and systematic implications". ''PLOS ONE'' 9 (5): e97682. Species and subspecies The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid. *''Hypsiglena affinis'' Boulenger, 1894 - Boulenger's night snake *'' Hypsiglena catalinae'' W.W. Tanner, 1966 - Santa Catalina night snake *'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea'' Cope, 1860 - Sonoran night snake **'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola'' W.W. Tanner, 1966 - desert night snake **'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea loreala'' W.W. Tanner, 1944 - Mesa Verde night snake **'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea tibur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by both List of U.S. states and territories by area, area (after Alaska) and List of U.S. states and territories by population, population (after California). Texas shares borders with the states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, states of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest; and has a coastline with the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Houston is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in Texas and the List of United States cities by population, fourth-largest in the U.S., while San Antonio is the second most pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonhard Stejneger
Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized in vertebrate natural history studies. He gained his greatest reputation with reptiles and amphibians. Wetmore, Alexander (1945). "Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851-1943)". ''Biographical Memoir. Nat. Acad. Sci.'' 24: 145-195PDF/ref> Early life and family Stejneger was born in Bergen, Norway. His father was Peter Stamer Steineger, a merchant and auditor; his mother was Ingeborg Catharine (née Hess). Leonhard was the eldest of seven children. His sister Agnes Steineger was a Norwegian artist. Until 1880, the Steineger family had been one of the wealthy families in Bergen; at that time business reverses led to the father declaring bankruptcy. Stejneger attended the Smith Theological School in Bergen from 1859 to 1860, and Bergen Latin School until 1869. His interests in zoology developed early. By age sixteen he had a print ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypsiglena Jani Texana
''Hypsiglena'' is a genus of small, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes commonly referred to as night snakes. The genus consists of nine species, and subspecies have been maintained pending further investigation.Mulcahy DG, Martínez-Gómez JE, Aguirre-León G, Cervantes-Pasqualli JA, Zug GR (2014). "Rediscovery of an endemic vertebrate from the remote Islas Revillagigedo in the eastern Pacific Ocean: The Clarión Nightsnake, with conservation and systematic implications". ''PLOS ONE'' 9 (5): e97682. Species and subspecies The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid. *''Hypsiglena affinis'' Boulenger, 1894 - Boulenger's night snake *'' Hypsiglena catalinae'' W.W. Tanner, 1966 - Santa Catalina night snake *'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea'' Cope, 1860 - Sonoran night snake **'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola'' W.W. Tanner, 1966 - desert night snake **'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea loreala'' W.W. Tanner, 1944 - Mesa Verde night snake **'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea tibur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chihuahua (state)
Chihuahua (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is located in northwestern Mexico, and is bordered by the states of Sonora to the west, Sinaloa to the southwest, Durango to the south, and Coahuila to the east. To the north and northeast, it shares an extensive border with the U.S. adjacent to the U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas. Its capital city is Chihuahua City; the largest city is Ciudad Juárez. Although Chihuahua is primarily identified with its namesake, the Chihuahuan Desert, it has more forests than any other state in Mexico, aside from Durango. Due to its variant climate, the state has a large variety of fauna and flora. The state is mostly characterized by rugged mountainous terrain and wide river valleys. The Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range, part of the continental spine that also inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Dugès
Alfredo Dugès (birth name- Alfred Auguste Delsescautz Dugès); (16 April 1826 – 7 January 1910) was a French-born, Mexican physician and naturalist born in Montpellier. He was the son of zoologist Antoine Louis Dugès (1797-1838). Alfredo Dugès is largely remembered for his extensive studies of Mexican herpetology. He studied medicine at the University of Paris, and in 1852 emigrated to Mexico. He settled in Guanajuato, where he worked as an Obstetrics, obstetrician, also giving classes in natural history at the ''Escuela de Estudios Superiores de Guanajuato''. With his brother, Entomology, entomologist Eugenio Dugès (1826-1895), he organized frequent field trips in order to collect specimens. Dugès published numerous scientific papers in several fields including herpetology, botany, and entomology. At Guanajuato, he was director of the local museum, later named the ''Museo Alfredo Dugès'' (:es:Museo Alfredo Dugès, es) in his honor. In Mexico, he described 40 new species of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiburón Island
Tiburón Island is the largest island in the Gulf of California and the largest island in Mexico, with an area of . It was made a nature reserve in 1963 by President Adolfo López Mateos. Etymology is Spanish for 'shark'. Although the Seri name, , was first recorded by Alphonse Pinart in 1879, its etymology is unknown. Geography Tiburón Island is part of the Mexican state of Sonora, as well as the Hermosillo Municipality, and is located at approximately the same latitude as the city of Hermosillo. It is located along the eastern shore of the Gulf of California, opposite Isla Ángel de la Guarda. It is part of the chain of islands known as the Midriff Islands or Islas Grandes. The island has a prominent mountain system of volcanic origin. History Tiburón Island is part of the traditional homeland of some bands (or clans) of the Seri people, for many centuries if not millennia. During the 1960s and early 1970s, a small hunting and fishing camp on the northern end of the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypsiglena Chlorophaea Tiburonensis
''Hypsiglena'' is a genus of small, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes commonly referred to as night snakes. The genus consists of nine species, and subspecies have been maintained pending further investigation.Mulcahy DG, Martínez-Gómez JE, Aguirre-León G, Cervantes-Pasqualli JA, Zug GR (2014). "Rediscovery of an endemic vertebrate from the remote Islas Revillagigedo in the eastern Pacific Ocean: The Clarión Nightsnake, with conservation and systematic implications". ''PLOS ONE'' 9 (5): e97682. Species and subspecies The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid. *''Hypsiglena affinis'' Boulenger, 1894 - Boulenger's night snake *'' Hypsiglena catalinae'' W.W. Tanner, 1966 - Santa Catalina night snake *'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea'' Cope, 1860 - Sonoran night snake **'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola'' W.W. Tanner, 1966 - desert night snake **'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea loreala'' W.W. Tanner, 1944 - Mesa Verde night snake **'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea tibur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesa Verde
Mesa Verde National Park is an American national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado. The park protects some of the best-preserved Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites in the United States. Established by Congress and President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, the park occupies near the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. With more than 5,000 sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, it is the largest archaeological preserve in the United States. Mesa Verde (Spanish for "green table", or more specifically "green table mountain") is best known for structures such as Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America. Starting BC Mesa Verde was seasonally inhabited by a group of nomadic Paleo-Indians known as the Foothills Mountain Complex. The variety of projectile points found in the region indicates they were influenced by surrounding areas, including the Great Basin, the San Juan Basin, and the Rio Grande Vall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypsiglena Chlorophaea Loreala
''Hypsiglena'' is a genus of small, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes commonly referred to as night snakes. The genus consists of nine species, and subspecies have been maintained pending further investigation.Mulcahy DG, Martínez-Gómez JE, Aguirre-León G, Cervantes-Pasqualli JA, Zug GR (2014). "Rediscovery of an endemic vertebrate from the remote Islas Revillagigedo in the eastern Pacific Ocean: The Clarión Nightsnake, with conservation and systematic implications". ''PLOS ONE'' 9 (5): e97682. Species and subspecies The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid. *''Hypsiglena affinis'' Boulenger, 1894 - Boulenger's night snake *'' Hypsiglena catalinae'' W.W. Tanner, 1966 - Santa Catalina night snake *'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea'' Cope, 1860 - Sonoran night snake **'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea deserticola'' W.W. Tanner, 1966 - desert night snake **'' Hypsiglena chlorophaea loreala'' W.W. Tanner, 1944 - Mesa Verde night snake **''Hypsiglena chlorophaea tiburo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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