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Tamaulipan Hook-nosed Snake
Ficimia streckeri Taylor, 1931

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Western Hook-nosed Snake (Ficimia cana: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); South Texas Hook-nosed Snake (Ficimia streckeri: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); Hook-nosed Snake (Ficimia olivacea: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Strecker's Hook-nosed Snake (Ficimia olivacea streckeri: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1931 Taylor, Edward H. Notes on two new specimens of the rare snake Ficimia cana, and the description of a new species of Ficimia from Texas. Copeia 1931(4):4-7
1950 Axtell, Ralph W. Two specimens of the snake Ficimia streckeri from Texas. Copeia 1950(2):157
1975 Hardy, Laurence M. A systematic revision of the colubrid snake genus Ficimia. Journal of Herpetology 9(2):133-168
1976 Hardy, Laurence M. Ficimia streckeri. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (181):1-2
1990 Hardy, Laurence M. Ficimia Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (471):1-5

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