Rhadinaea gaigeae explained

Rhadinaea gaigeae, also known commonly as Gaige's pine forest snake and la hojarasquera de Gaige in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico.

Etymology

The specific name, gaigeae, is in honor of American herpetologist Helen Beulah Thompson Gaige.^[1]

Geographic range

R. gaigeae is found in the Mexican states of Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of R. gaigeae is forest, at altitudes of .

Reproduction

R. gaigei is oviparous.

Further reading

• Bailey JR (1937). "A New Species of Rhadinaea from San Luis Potosí ". Copeia 1937 (2): 118–119. (Rhadinaea gaigeae, new species).
• Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main: Chimaira. 572 pp. .
• 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. (Rhadinaea gaigeae, p. 52).
• Zepéda-Hernández, Zeltzin Ketzalken; Hernández-Melo, Juan Alfonso; Torres-Angeles, Ferdinand (2017). "Distribution Notes. Rhadinaea gaigeae Bailey, 1937". Mesoamerican Herpetology 4 (2): 475.

Notes and References

1. [species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]