- Source: Rhadinaea
Rhadinaea is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.
Species
The following 21 species are recognized as being valid.
Rhadinaea bogertorum C. Myers, 1974 – Oaxacan graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea calligaster (Cope, 1876) – thick graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea cuneata C. Myers, 1974 – Veracruz graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea decorata (Günther, 1858) – adorned graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea flavilata (Cope, 1871) – pine woods snake
Rhadinaea forbesi H.M. Smith, 1942 – Forbes's graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea fulvivittis Cope, 1875 – ribbon graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea gaigeae Bailey, 1937 – Gaige's pine forest snake
Rhadinaea hesperia Bailey, 1940 – western graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea laureata (Günther, 1868) – crowned graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea macdougalli H.M. Smith & Langebartel, 1949 – MacDougall's graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea marcellae Taylor, 1949 – Marcella's graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea montana H.M. Smith, 1944 – Nuevo León graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea myersi Rossman, 1965 – Myers's graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea nuchalis Gárcia-Vázquez, Pavón-Vázquez, Blancas-Hernández, Blancas-Calva & Centenero-Alcalá, 2018
Rhadinaea omiltemana (Günther, 1894) – Guerreran pine woods snake
Rhadinaea pulveriventris Boulenger, 1896 – common graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea quinquelineata Cope, 1886 – Pueblan graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea sargenti Dunn & Bailey, 1939 – Sargent's graceful brown snake
Rhadinaea taeniata (W. Peters, 1863) – pine-oak snake
Rhadinaea vermiculaticeps (Cope, 1860) – vermiculate graceful brown snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Rhadinaea.
References
Further reading
Cope ED (1863). "Descriptions of new American SQUAMATA, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 15: 100–106. (Rhadinæa, new genus, p. 101).