Rhadinaea gaigeae

Rhadinaea gaigeae, also known commonly as Gaige's pine forest snake and la hojarasquera de Gaige in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico.[2]

Rhadinaea gaigeae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Rhadinaea
Species:
R. gaigeae
Binomial name
Rhadinaea gaigeae
Bailey, 1937

Etymology

The specific name, gaigeae, is in honor of American herpetologist Helen Beulah Thompson Gaige.[3]

Geographic range

R. gaigeae is found in the Mexican states of Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of R. gaigeae is forest, at altitudes of 200–2,680 m (660–8,790 ft).[1]

Reproduction

R. gaigei is oviparous.[2]

References
  1. Böhm, M.; Richman, N. (2010). "Rhadinaea gaigeae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T174103A7015221. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Species Rhadinaea gaigeae at The Reptile Database
  3. 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 gaigeae, p. 96).

Further reading
  • Bailey JR (1937). "A New Species of Rhadinaea from San Luis Potosí ". Copeia 1937 (2): 118–119. (Rhadinaea gaigeae, new species).
  • Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main: Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
  • Liner EA (2007). "A Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of México". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University (80): 1–59. (Rhadinaea gaigeae, p. 52).
  • Zepéda-Hernández, Zeltzin Ketzalken; Hernández-Melo, Juan Alfonso; Torres-Angeles, Ferdinand (2017). "Distribution Notes. Rhadinaea gaigeae Bailey, 1937". Mesoamerican Herpetology 4 (2): 475.



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