Graceful mountain snake

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Graceful mountain snake
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Rhadinophanes
Myers & Campbell, 1981
Species:
R. monticola
Binomial name
Rhadinophanes monticola
Myers & Campbell, 1981

The graceful mountain snake (Rhadinophanes monticola) is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae. [2]

It is endemic to Guerrero, Mexico, where it is known only from the type locality of Puerto del Gallo in the Sierra Madre del Sur, at approximately 3,000 meters elevation. [1] [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Canseco-Márquez, L.; Campbell, J.A.; Ponce-Campos, P.; Muñoz-Alonso, A.; García Aguayo, A. (2007). "Rhadinophanes monticola". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2007: e.T63907A12725339. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63907A12725339.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. Rhadinophanes at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 11 October 2018.
  3. Rhadinophanes monticola at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 11 October 2018.