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Painted Desert Glossy Snake

Arizona elegans philipi

Classification

Arizona elegans philipi, commonly known as the Painted Desert glossy snake, is a subspecies of glossy snakes, a nonvenomous colubrid endemic to North America. Etymology The epithet philipipi is in honor of Philip Monroe Klauber, son of herpetologist Laurence Monroe Klauber who named the subspecies. Geographic range It is found in the south-western United States, from the far western tip of Texas, through New Mexico, and into Arizona, as well as into northern Mexico.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 85Mexico · 1