Rhadinaea bogertorum

Rhadinaea bogertorum
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Rhadinaea
Species:	R. bogertorum
Binomial name
Rhadinaea bogertorum C. Myers, 1974

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.

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 Herpetology2 (1): 6–62.
• Myers CW (1974). "The systematics of Rhadinaea (Colubridae), a genus of New World snakes". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History153 (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 Society34 (4): 99-122.