World Species : Masticophis bilineatus (Sonoran Whipsnake)

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Masticophis bilineatus (Sonoran Whipsnake)

Contents

Synonyms: Masticophis bilineatus lineolatus

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	4.202 lbs (1.906 kg)

Litter Size ^[1]	6

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Bajío dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Balsas dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Central Mexican matorral	Mexico	Nearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Chihuahuan desert	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Gulf of California xeric scrub	Mexico	Nearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Jalisco dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Meseta Central matorral	Mexico	Nearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Mojave desert	United States	Nearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Sinaloan dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Sonoran desert	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado Biosphere Reserve	VI	2320468	Sonora, Mexico
Coronado National Monument National Memorial	III	4360	Arizona, United States
Fort Bowie National Historic Site	III	1004	Arizona, United States
Montezuma Castle National Monument	V	872	Arizona, United States
Tonto National Monument	V	1123	Arizona, United States

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands	Mexico, United States	No
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	No

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0