Rhadinaea bogertorum

Rhadinaea bogertorum, also known commonly as the Oaxacan graceful brown snake and la hojarasquera de Oaxaca in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Mexico.

Rhadinaea bogertorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Rhadinaea
Species:
R. bogertorum
Binomial name
Rhadinaea bogertorum
C. Myers, 1974

Etymology

The specific name, bogertorum (genetive plural), is in honor of American herpetologist Charles Mitchill Bogert and his wife Martha.[2]

Geographic range

R. bogertorum is endemic to the Mexican state of Oaxaca.[3]

Habitat

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

Description

The holotype of R. bogertorum has a total length of 44.8 cm (17.6 in), which includes a tail length of 13.3 cm (5.2 in). The dorsal scales are smooth, without apical pits, and in 17 rows throughout the length of the body.[4]

Reproduction

R. bogertorum is oviparous.[3]

References
  1. Canseco-Márquez, L. (2007). "Rhadinaea bogertorum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T63888A12717986. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Rhadinaea bogertorum, p. 30).
  3. Species Rhadinaea bogertorum at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  4. Myers CW (1974).

Further reading
  • Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
  • Mata-Silva V, Johnson JD, Wilson LD, García-Padilla E (2015). "The herpetofauna of Oaxaca Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status". Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62.
  • Myers CW (1974). "The systematics of Rhadinaea (Colubridae), a genus of New World snakes". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 153 (1): 1–262. (Rhadinaea bogertorum, new species, pp. 59–66, Figures 10J, 11G, 13, Map 5).
  • Ramirez-Bautista A, Mancilla-Moreno M, Smith HM, Chiszar D, van Breukelen F (1998). "Morphological Variation and Relationship of Rhadinaea bogertorum (Squamata: Colubridae), an Endemic Snake of the Sierra de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico". Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 34 (4): 99-122.



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