Hallberg's cloud forest snake

{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Speciesbox | image = | status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Canseco-Márquez, L. |author-link=species:Luis Canseco-Márquez |date=2007 |title=''Cryophis hallbergi '' |volume=2007 |article-number=e.T63767A12707389 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63767A12707389.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref> | parent_authority = Bogert & Duellman, 1963 | taxon = Cryophis hallbergi | authority = Bogert & Duellman, 1963 }} '''Hallberg's cloud forest snake''' ('''''Cryophis hallbergi''')'', also known commonly as '''''la culebra de bosque mesófilo de Hallberg''''' in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species, which is endemic to Mexico, is monotypic in the genus '''''Cryophis'''''.<ref name=RDB/>

==Etymology== The specific name, ''hallbergi'', is in honor of Thomas Boone Hallberg (born 1923), who is an American botanist who has been working in Mexico for over 50 years.<ref>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}}. (''Cryophis hallbergi'', p. 114).</ref>

==Geographic range== ''C. hallbergi'' occurs in the Sierra Juarez and Sierra Mazateca of northern Oaxaca state, at elevations of {{cvt|1,200|–|1,865|m|ft}}.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021"/>

==Habitat== The natural habitat of ''C. hallbergi'' is undisturbed cloud forest.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021"/>

==Reproduction== ''C. hallbergi'' is oviparous.<ref name=RDB/>

==References== {{Reflist|refs=. <ref name=RDB>{{NRDB species |genus=Cryophis |species=hallbergi |date=13 December |year=2023}}</ref> }}

==Further reading== *Bogert CM, Duellman WE (1963). "A New Genus and Species of Colubrid Snake from the Mexican State of Oaxaca". ''American Museum Novitates'' (2162): 1–15. (''Cryophis'', new genus; ''Cryophis hallbergi'', new species). *Heimes P (2016). ''Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I''. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. {{ISBN|978-3899731002}}. *Liner EA (2007). "A Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of México". ''Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University'' (80): 1–59. *Simón-Salvador, Pablo Rogelio; Arreortúa, Medardo; Flores, Carlos A.; Santiago-Dionicio, Hermes; González-Bernal, Edna (2021). "The role of Indigenous and Community Conservation Areas in herpetofauna conservation: a preliminary lit for Santa Cruz Tepetotutla, Oaxaca Mexico". ''ZooKeys'' '''1029''': 185–208.

Category:Dipsadinae Category:Monotypic snake genera Category:Endemic reptiles of Mexico Category:Fauna of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca Category:Taxa named by William Edward Duellman Category:Reptiles described in 1963