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Rhadinella montecristi (MERTENS, 1952)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Monte Cristi Graceful Brown Snake 
SynonymRhadinaea montecristi MERTENS 1952
Rhadinaea montecristi — MYERS 1974: 143
Rhadinaea montecristi — WILSON et al. 2006
Rhadinella montecristi — MYERS 2011
Rhadinella montecristi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 643 
DistributionSW Honduras (elevation: 1370-2620 m), NW El Salvador, SE Guatemala

Type locality: Hacienda Mone Cristo, 2200 m elevation, mountains of Metapán, Departamento Santa Ana, El Salvador.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: SMF 43188, male 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Rhadinaea montecristi differs from all of its congeners save R. hempsteadae and R. serperaster in having 19 scale rows. It differs from these two species in having very heavy lateral and ventrolateral stripes (see fig. 28C). The color pattern of the body is virtually identical with some specimens of R. lachrymans, which differs in having 17 scale rows and pale blotches on the rear of the frontal. (Myers 1974: 143)


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CommentHabitat: This snake is found in both disturbed and undisturbed cloud forests in the Lower Montane Moist Forest and Lower Montane Wet Forest formations (after Holdridge 1967) between 1300 and 2620 m elevation (McCranie and Wilson 1991). 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Espinal, M., J. M. Solís, and J. M. Mora. 2017. Rhadinella montecristi (Mertens, 1952). Honduras, La Paz. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4 (3): 676–677 - get paper here
  • Holdridge, L. R. 1967. Life Zone Ecology. Second Edition. San Jose, Costa Rica. Tropical Science Center. 206 pp.
  • Laking AE, Solís JM, Brown T, Maddock ST, Burdekin O, Taylor P, Lonsdale G, Green SEW, Martin TE, Galdamez JR, Kolby JE, Erens J, Jocque M 2024. The amphibians and reptiles of Cusuco National Park, Northwest Honduras: updates from a long-term conservation programme. In: Lipińska M, Lopez-Selva MM, Sierra JM (Eds) Biodiversity research in Central America. Neotropical Biology and Conservation 19(2): 37-62 - get paper here
  • McCranie J R 2011. The snakes of Honduras. SSAR, Salt Lake City, 725 pp.
  • McCranie J R; Wilson L D 1991. Rhadinaea montecristi Mertens. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 524: 1-2 - get paper here
  • McCranie, James R. 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 352–386 - get paper here
  • Mertens, R. 1952. Die Amphibien und Reptilien von El Salvador. Abh. senckenb. naturf. Ges. (Frankfurt) (No. 487): 120 pp.
  • Myers, C.W. 1974. The systematics of Rhadinaea (Colubridae), a genus of New World snakes. Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 153 (1): 1-262 - get paper here
  • Myers, Charles W. 2011. A New Genus and New Tribe for Enicognathus melanauchen Jan, 1863, a Neglected South American Snake (Colubridae: Xenodontinae), with Taxonomic Notes on Some Dipsadinae. American Museum Novitates (3715): 1-33 - get paper here
  • Oliveira, L. D., Grazziotin, F. G., Sánchez-Martínez, P. M., Sasa, M., Flores-Villela, O., Prudente, A. L. D. C., & Zaher, H. 2023. Phylogenetic and morphological evidence reveals the association between diet and the evolution of the venom delivery system in Neotropical goo-eating snakes. Systematics and Biodiversity, 21(1), 2153944 - get paper here
  • Smith, E. N. AND J. A. CAMPBELL. 1994. A new species of Rhadinea (Colubridae) from the Caribbean Versant of Guatemala. Occ. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Kansas (167):1-9. - get paper here
  • Solís, J. M., L. D. Wilson, and J. H. Townsend. 2014. An updated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with comments on their nomenclature. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1: 123–144 - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams, Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
  • Wilson, L.D. & McCranie, J.R. 2003. The herpetofauna of the cloud forests of Honduras. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 3 (1): 34-48 - get paper here
  • Wilson, L.D.; McCranie, J.R. & Porras, L. 1979. Rhadinaea montecristi Mertens: an addition to the snake fauna of Honduras. Herpetological Review 10 (2): 62 - get paper here
  • Wilson, L.D.; Townsend, J.H.; Plenderleith, T.L.; Talley, B.L. & Fraser, D.C. 2006. Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae, Rhadinaea montecristi: Distribution extension, geographic distribution map. Check List 2 (1): 8-9 - get paper here
 
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