Ficimia hardyi, also known commonly as Hardy's hooknose snake, Hardy's hook-nosed snake, the Hidalgo hook-nosed snake, and nariz de gancho de Hardy in Mexican Spanish, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Ficimia |
| Species: | F. hardyi
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| Ficimia hardyi Mendoza-Quijano & H.M. Smith, 1993
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Etymology edit
The specific name, hardyi, is in honor of American herpetologist Laurence McNeil Hardy.[3]
Geographic range edit
F. hardyi is found in the Mexican states of Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas.[2]
Habitat edit
The preferred natural habitats of F. hardyi are forest and shrubland, but it has also been found in cultivated agave fields.[1]
Description edit
The holotype of F. hardyi has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 28.2 cm (11.1 in), plus a tail length of 7.6 cm (3.0 in).[2]
Behavior edit
F. hardyi is terrestrial and fossorial.[1]
Reproduction edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d Mendoza-Quijano, F. (2007). "Ficimia hardyi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T63781A12708026. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63781A12708026.en. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d Species Ficimia hardyi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Ficimia hardyi, p. 116).
Further reading edit
- Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
- Hernández-Ibarra, Xóchitl; Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio; Torres-Cervantes, Ricardo; Hernández-Macías, Hector (1999). "Geographic Distribution. Ficimia hardyi (Hardy's Hooknose Snake)". Herpetological Review 30 (4): 235.
- Mendoza-Quijano F, Smith HM (1993). "A New Species of Hooknose Snake, Ficimia (Reptilia, Serpentes)". Journal of Herpetology 27 (4): 406–410. (Ficimia hardyi, new species). (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).
- Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio; Hernández-Ibarra, Xóchitl; Torres-Cervantes, Ricardo; Smith, Hobart M. (1999). "External Morphological Variation in Hardy's Hooknose Snake Ficimia hardyi (Squamata: Colubridae)". Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 35 (3): 81–84.
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