Description: Sonora cincta can be distinguished from all other Sonora except for S. fasciata and S. straminea by the presence of an elongated rostrum. Unlike S. straminea, S. cincta does not have apical maculations on dorsal body. There are no simple morphological measurements to distinguish S. fasciata and S. cincta. Geographic range may in fact be the most reliable way to distinguish S. fasciata from S. cincta.

Habitat: A fossorial species that generally inhabits sandy, sandy-gravelly, or loamy soils of flats, dunes, hummocks, arroyos (dry creeks), and wash borders, in deserts (e.g., mesquite-crosotebush), uplands with palo verde-saguaro, and thornscrub habitats. On dunes, tracks may extend among the bases of shrubs. It also occurs on rocky hillsides, including lava flows. Sometimes it can be found under rocks or vegetative debris. This species is a sand-swimmer.

Range: It is distributed in the Sonoran desert and dry forests of southern Arizona, western Sonora south to Sinaloa and on the northern Baja California Peninsula at least as far south as Bahia Concepcion

Found in these States: AZ

Diet: Eats invertebrates, including grasshoppers, cockroaches, and centipedes, often foraging just under the surface of the sand.

Reproduction: oviparous

Status: Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

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