{{Short description|Species of snake}} {{speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | genus = Thamnophis | species = lineri | authority = Rossman & Burbrink, 2005 }} '''''Thamnophis lineri''''', also known commonly as '''Liner's garter snake'''<ref>[http://www.naherp.com/taxon.php?taxon=2723 Liner's Gartersnake (''Thamnophis lineri'' )], H.E.R.P.</ref> and '''''víbora de aqua''''' in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico.

==Etymology== The specific name ''lineri'' is in honor of the American herpetologist Ernest A. Liner (1925–2010).<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}}. (''Thamnophis lineri'', p. 159).</ref>

==Geographic range== ''T. lineri'' is found only in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.<ref name=RDB>{{EMBL species|genus=Thamnophis|species=lineri}}. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

==Habitat== The preferred habitats of ''T. lineri'' are pine-oak forest and pine-oak-madroño forest at elevations of {{convert|2,700|m|ft|abbr=on}} and higher.<ref>Rossman & Burbrink (2005), p. 28.</ref>

==Reproduction== ''T. lineri'' is viviparous. <ref name=RDB/>

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==Further reading== *Heimes, Peter (2016). ''Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I''. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 572 pp. {{ISBN|978-3899731002}}. *Mata-Silva V, Johnson JD, Wilson LD, García-Padilla E (2015). "The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status". ''Mesoamerican Herpetology'' '''2''' (1): 6–62. (in English, with an abstract in Spanish). *Rossman, Douglas A.; Burbrink, Frank T. (2005). "Species limits within the Mexican garter snakes of the ''Thamnophis godmani'' complex". ''Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University'' (79): 1–43. (''Thamnophis lineri'', new species, pp. 25–29, Figures 10–11).

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lineri Category:Reptiles described in 2005 Category:Reptiles of Mexico Category:Taxa named by Douglas A. Rossman

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