Rhadinaea macdougalli

• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Common Names

Description

Family Colubridae

The family Colubridae, which includes the kingsnakes (Lampropeltis spp. ), is the largest, most widespread, and diverse family of snakes , with few physical characteristics universal among all species. The family contains 70 percent of the known species of snakes, with more than 1700 species worldwide (Pough et al. 1998). Although some colubrids are dangerously venomous , most are harmless to humans. [1]

Subfamily Dipsadinae

These snakes are the New World counterparts of the Pareinae and resemble them in appearance and habits. They live in tropical America.

Habitat

Ecology: A terrestrial snake , it is found underneath leaf-litter and logs in pine-oak forests .[2]


List of Habitats :1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Rhadinaea macdougalli — Liner 1994
2. Rhadinaea macdougalli — Liner 2007
3. Rhadinaea macdougalli SMITH & LANGEBARTEL 1949 /i> (1950)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Rhadinaea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 80 species and subspecies in this genus:

R. aemula · R. affinis · R. albiceps · R. altamontana · R. anachoreta · R. anomala · R. beui · R. binotata · R. bogertorum (Oaxacan Graceful Brown Snake) · R. brazili · R. brevirostris · R. calligaster (Thick Graceful Brown Snake) · R. chrysostoma · R. cobella · R. crassa · R. cuneata (Veracruz Graceful Brown Snake) · R. decipiens · R. decorata (Adorned Graceful Brown Snake) · R. decorata decorata · R. decosata · R. elegantissima · R. festae · R. flavilata (Pine Woods Snake) · R. forbesi (Forbes' Graceful Brown Snake) · R. frenata · R. fulviceps · R. fulvivittis (Ribbon Graceful Brown Snake) · R. gaigeae (Gaige's Pine Forest Snake) · R. godmani (Godman's Graceful Brown Snake) · R. godmani godmani (Godman's Graceful Brown Snake) · R. godmani zilchi · R. guentheri · R. hannsteini (Hannstein's Spot-Lipped Snake) · R. hempsteadae (Hempstead's Pine Woods Snake) · R. hesperia (Western Graceful Brown Snake) · R. hesperia baileyi · R. kanalchutchan · R. kinkelini (Kinkelin Graceful Brown Snake) · R. lachrymans (Tearful Pine-Oak Snake) · R. lateristriga · R. lateristriga lateristriga · R. laureata (Crowned Graceful Brown Snake) · R. macdougalli (Macdougall's Graceful Brown Snake) · R. marcellae (Marcella's Graceful Brown Snake) · R. merremii · R. modesta · R. montana (Nuevo Leon Graceful Brown Snake) · R. montecristi (Monte Cristi Graceful Brown Snake) · R. myersi (Myers' Graceful Brown Snake) · R. obtusa · R. occipitalis · R. omiltemana (Guerreran Pine Woods Snake) · R. omiltemanus · R. orina · R. pachyura · R. pachyura fulviceps · R. pachyura pachyura · R. pegosalyta · R. persimilis · R. pilonaorum (Stuart's Graceful Brown Snake) · R. pinicola · R. poecilopogon · R. posadasi (Posada's Graceful Brown Snake) · R. praeornata · R. pulveriventris (Common Graceful Brown Snake) · R. quinquelineata (Pueblan Graceful Brown Snake) · R. radix · R. rogerromani · R. sagittifera · R. sargenti (Sargent's Graceful Brown Snake) · R. schistosa (Brokencollar Graceful Brown Snake) · R. serperaster · R. serperastra · R. stadelmani (Stadelman's Graceful Brown Snake) · R. taeniata (Pine-Oak Snake) · R. taeniata aemula · R. taeniata taeniata (Pine-Oak Snake) · R. tolpanorum · R. tristriata · R. vermiculaticeps (Vermiculate Graceful Brown Snake)

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Further Reading

• Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed. 1993. Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17. Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. iv + 73. ISBN: 0-911239-42-1.
• Köhler, G. 2003. Reptiles of Central America. Herpeton, Germany. 368 pp.
• Myers (1974) Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 153 (1): 1-262
• Myers, C.W. 1974. The systematics of Rhadinaea (Colubridae), a genus of New World snakes. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 153: 1-262.
• Smith et al. (1949) J. Washington Acad. Sci. 39: 409-416.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 4, 2006.
• Canseco-Márquez, L. 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2544471
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-26537
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 586008
• IUCN ID: 63899
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 140080

Footnotes

1. Painter, Charles W., Chuck L. Hayes, and James N. Stuart "Recovery and Conservation of the Gray-Banded Kingsnake. New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. May 1, 2002. [back]
2. Canseco-Márquez, L. 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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