Rhadinaea Explained

Rhadinaea is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.^[1]

Species

The following 21 species are recognized as being valid.^[1]

• Rhadinaea bogertorum – Oaxacan graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea calligaster – thick graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea cuneata – Veracruz graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea decorata – adorned graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea flavilata – pine woods snake
• Rhadinaea forbesi – Forbes's graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea fulvivittis – ribbon graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea gaigeae – Gaige's pine forest snake
• Rhadinaea hesperia – western graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea laureata – crowned graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea macdougalli – MacDougall's graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea marcellae – Marcella's graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea montana – Nuevo León graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea myersi – Myers's graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea nuchalis
• Rhadinaea omiltemana – Guerreran pine woods snake
• Rhadinaea pulveriventris – common graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea quinquelineata – Pueblan graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea sargenti – Sargent's graceful brown snake
• Rhadinaea taeniata – pine-oak snake
• Rhadinaea vermiculaticeps – vermiculate graceful brown snake

Nota bene

A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Rhadinaea.

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).

Notes and References

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