Genus of snakes
Rhadinaea genus of snakes of the family Colubridae .[ 1]
Species
The following 21 species are recognized as being valid.[ 1]
Rhadinaea bogertorum C. Myers , 1974Rhadinaea calligaster (Cope , 1876) – thick graceful brown snakeRhadinaea cuneata C. Myers, 1974 – Veracruz graceful brown snakeRhadinaea decorata (Günther, 1858 ) – adorned graceful brown snakeRhadinaea flavilata (Cope, 1871) – pine woods snakeRhadinaea forbesi H.M. Smith , 1942Rhadinaea fulvivittis Cope, 1875 – ribbon graceful brown snakeRhadinaea gaigeae Bailey , 1937Rhadinaea hesperia Bailey, 1940 – western graceful brown snakeRhadinaea laureata (Günther, 1868) – crowned graceful brown snakeRhadinaea macdougalli H.M. Smith & Langebartel , 1949 – MacDougall's graceful brown snakeRhadinaea marcellae Taylor , 1949Rhadinaea montana H.M. Smith, 1944 – Nuevo León graceful brown snakeRhadinaea myersi Rossman , 1965Rhadinaea nuchalis Gárcia-Vázquez , Pavón-Vázquez , Blancas-Hernández , Blancas-Calva & Centenero-Alcalá , 2018Rhadinaea omiltemana (Günther, 1894) – Guerreran pine woods snakeRhadinaea pulveriventris Boulenger , 1896Rhadinaea quinquelineata Cope, 1886 – Pueblan graceful brown snakeRhadinaea sargenti Dunn & Bailey, 1939Rhadinaea taeniata (W. Peters , 1863) – pine-oak snakeRhadinaea vermiculaticeps (Cope, 1860) – vermiculate graceful brown snakeNota bene binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Rhadinaea .
References
Further reading
Cope ED (1863). "Descriptions of new American SQUAMATA, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 15 : 100–106. (Rhadinæa , new genus, p. 101).
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