Description
Habitat
Ecology: This species has been found in sandy areas like arroyo
bottoms
and coastal dunes as well as on the branches of trees
and bushes. The species is nocturnal
.[1]
List of Habitats
:8.1Desert - Hot
13.3Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Sand
Dunes
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
)
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
)
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
)
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
)
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
)
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
)
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
)
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Reptilia
(
)
- Reptiles
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
)
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
)
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
)
-
- Order:
Squamata
(
)
- Suborder:
Serpentes
(
)
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Superfamily:
Colubroidea
(
)
- Family:
Acrochordidae
(
)
- Genus:
Rhinocheilus
(
)
- Specific name:
etheridgei
- Scientific name: - Rhinocheilus etheridgei
- Specific name:
etheridgei
- Genus:
Rhinocheilus
(
- Family:
Acrochordidae
(
- Superfamily:
Colubroidea
(
- Suborder:
Serpentes
(
- Order:
Squamata
(
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
- Class:
Reptilia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Rhinocheilus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 12 species and subspecies in this genus:
R. antonii · R. etheridgei · R. lecontei (Texas Long-Nosed Snake) · R. lecontei antoni · R. lecontei antonii · R. lecontei etheridgei · R. lecontei lecontei (Western Long-Nosed Snake) · R. lecontei tesselatus · R. lecontei tessellatus · R. leconti · R. tesselatus · R. thominoti
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Further Reading
- Banks, R.C. and Farmer, W.M. 1963. Observations on reptiles of Cerralvo Island, Mexico. Herpetologica 18: 246-250.
- Grismer, L.L. 1990. A new long-nosed snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei) from Isla Cerralvo, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 4: 1-7.
- Grismer, L.L. 2002. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California, including its Pacific Islands and the Islands in the Sea of Cortés. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California.
Notes
Contributors
- Frost, D.R. 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5744068
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16466458
- IUCN ID: 63908
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2402727
Footnotes
- Frost, D.R. 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
