Salvadora hexalepis mojavensis Bogert, 1935

Hernández-Jiménez, Carlos A., Flores-Villela, Oscar, Aguilar-Bremauntz, Aranzazú & Campbell, Jonathan A., 2021, Phylogenetic relationships based on morphological data and taxonomy of the genus Salvadora Baird & Girard, 1853 (Reptilia, Colubridae), European Journal of Taxonomy 764 (1), pp. 85-118 : 102

Salvadora hexalepis mojavensis Bogert, 1935

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Salvadora hexalepis mojavensis Bogert, 1945: 14 .

Diagnosis

Nine supralabials, no supralabial in contact with the eye or only sixth in contact; 10–11 infralabials; from two to three suboculars; 190–207 ventral scales; 82–96 subcaudal scales; tail 20 to 25% of total length; 11+3 maxillary teeth; a pale vertebral line that does not reach the parietal region, bordered by a pair of dorsolateral lines and a pair of somewhat inconspicuous lateral lines and irregular bars along the body that interrupt the dorsolateral and lateral lines.

Differs from all conspecific subspecies by having two or three suboculars present.

Etymology

Toponym alluding to its distribution that is concentrated in the Mojave Desert.

Type material examined

UNITED STATES • ♂; California, San Bernardino County, Deadman Point, 11.5 miles SE of Victorville, at the south end of the Granite Mountains; 19 Jun. 1935; C.M. Bogert leg; AMNH 63000 .

Distribution

Endemic to the United States. Distributed south of the San Joaquín Valley and the Mojave Desert, east and north of the foothills of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains, to Pyramid Lake in western Nevada, the Virgin River Basin in southern to western Utah, and portions of the Painted Desert in northern Arizona near the Grand Canyon and the canyon of the small Colorado River ( Fig. 9 ).

Figures

Fig. 9. Locality records of Salvadora hexalepis (Cope, 1866) and its subspecies. Blue dots represent S. h. mojavensis Bogert, 1945; yellow dots S. h. virgultea Bogert, 1935; red dots S. h. hexalepis (Cope, 1866) and green dots S. h. klauberi Bogert, 1945.