Rhadinella kinkelini
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| Rhadinella kinkelini | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Rhadinella |
| Species: | R. kinkelini
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhadinella kinkelini (Boettger, 1898)
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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
The specific name, kinkelini, is in honor of German geologist Georg Friedrich Kinkelin.[3]
Geographic range
R. kinkelini is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and in extreme southeastern Mexico in the Mexican state of Chiapas.[2]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of R. kinkelini is forest.[1]
Behavior
R. kinkelini is terrestrial, and it is both diurnal and nocturnal.[1]
Reproduction
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Campbell, J.A.; Muñoz-Alonso, A. (2013). "Rhadinella kinkelini ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T63896A3130874. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Species Rhadinella kinkelini at The Reptile Database
- ↑ 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
- 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.
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