Rhinobothryum bovallii

Rhinobothryum bovallii, commonly known as the coral mimic snake or the false tree coral, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Central America and northwestern South America.

Rhinobothryum bovallii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Rhinobothryum
Species:
R. bovallii
Binomial name
Rhinobothryum bovallii
(Andersson, 1916)
Synonyms[2]
  • Rhinobothrium [sic] bovallii
    Andersson, 1916
  • Rhinobothryum [sic] bovalli
    — J. Peters, 1960

Etymology

The specific name, bovallii, is in honor of Swedish biologist Carl Bovallius.[3]

Geographic range

R. bovallii is found in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador.[4]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of R. bovallii is forest, at altitudes from sea level to 900 m (3,000 ft).[1]

Reproduction

R. bovallii is oviparous.[1][4]

Mimicry

R. bovallii mimics two sympatric species of venomous snakes, Micrurus alleni and Micrurus nigrocinctus.[4]

References
  1. Arredondo, J.C.; Cisneros-Heredia, D.F.; Rivas, G.; Sunyer, J.; Townsend, J.H. (2017). "Rhinobothryum bovallii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T177498A1489023. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T177498A1489023.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. Peters JA (1960). "The Snakes of Ecuador, A Check List and Key". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 122 (9): 489-541. ("Rhinobothryum [sic] bovallii ", new combination, p. 537).
  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. (Rhinobothryum bovallii, p. 36).
  4. Species Rhinobothryum bovallii at The Reptile Database

Further reading
  • Andersson LG (1916). "Notes on the reptiles and batrachians in the Zoological Museum at Gothenburg, with an account of some new species". Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskap och Vitter Hets-Samnalles Handlingar Sjatte Foljden (Series B,4) 17 (5) [= Meddelanden fran Göteborgs Musei Zoologiska Afdelning (9)]: 1-41. ("Rhinobothrium [sic] bovallii ", new species, p. 32, Figure 4).
  • Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Rhinobothryum bovallii, p. 109).
  • Rojas-Morales, Julián Andrés (2012). "On the geographic distribution of the false coral snake, Rhinobothryum bovallii (Serpentes: Dipsadidae), in Colombia – a biogeographical perspective". Salamandra 48 (4): 243-248.
  • Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M.; Infante-Rivero, Edwin E. (2018). "Redescubrimiento de las serpientes Rhinobothryium bovallii (Andersson, 1916) y Plesiodipsas perijanensis (Alemán, 1953) en Venezuela". Memoria de la Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales 76 (184): 83–92. (in Spanish, with an abstract in English).



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