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Rhadinella kinkelini

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Rhadinella kinkelini
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Rhadinella
Species:
R. kinkelini
Binomial name
Rhadinella kinkelini
(Boettger, 1898)
Synonyms[2]
  • Rhadinaea kinkelini
    Boettger, 1898
  • Rhadinaea veraepacis
    Stuart & Bailey, 1941
  • Trimetopon veraepacis
    (Stuart & Bailey, 1941)
  • Rhadinaea pinicola
    Mertens, 1952

Rhadinella kinkelini, also known commonly as the Kinkelin graceful brown snake, Kinkelin's graceful brown snake, and la hojarasquera de Kinkelin in Central American Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to Central America.

Etymology

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The specific name, kinkelini, is in honor of German geologist Georg Friedrich Kinkelin.[3]

Geographic range

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R. kinkelini is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and in extreme southeastern Mexico in the Mexican state of Chiapas.[2]

Habitat

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The preferred natural habitat of R. kinkelini is forest.[1]

Behavior

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R. kinkelini is terrestrial, and it is both diurnal and nocturnal.[1]

Reproduction

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R. kinkelini is oviparous.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Campbell, J.A.; Muñoz-Alonso, A. (2013). "Rhadinella kinkelini ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T63896A3130874. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Species Rhadinella kinkelini at The Reptile Database
  3. ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Rhadinaea kinkelini, p. 141).

Further reading

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  • Boettger O (1898). Katalog der Reptilien-Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. II. Teil (Schlangen). Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Naturmuseum Senckenberg. (Gebrüder Knauer, printers). ix + 160 pp. (Rhadinaea kinkelini, new species, p. 68). (in German).
  • Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
  • Hofmann, Erich P.; Mason, Andrew J.; Townsend, Josiah H.; Galeano, Carlos Andino; Vindel, José Anibal; Parkinson, Christopher L. (2019). "Rhadinella kinkelini (Kinkelin's Graceful Brown Snake). Reproduction and Distribution". Herpetological Review 50 (2): 402–403.
  • McCranie JR, Wilson LD (1991). "Rhadinaea kinkelini Boettger". Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 523: 1–2.