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Rhadinaea pulveriventris BOULENGER, 1896

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Common Graceful Brown Snake 
SynonymRhadinaea pulveriventris BOULENGER 1896: 635
Rhadinaea pulveriventris — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 268
Rhadinaea pulveriventris — VILLA et al. 1988
Rhadinaea pulveriventris — SAVAGE 2002
Rhadinaea pulveriventris — WALLACH et al. 2014: 641 
DistributionCosta Rica, W Panama

Type locality: “Azahar de Cartago, Costa Rica.”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.9.6 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Myers 1974: 159 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin pulveris, dust, powder; sand + Latin ventris, stomach, womb; belly. [“...belly pinkish yellow, finely speckled all over with blackish...”]. 
References
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here
  • 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
  • Peters, James A.; Donoso-Barros, Roberto & Orejas-Miranda, Braulio 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part I Snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 347 pp. - get paper here
  • Sasa, M., Arias, E., & Chaves, G. 2025. Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: The role of the Museum of Zoology in cataloging the country’s herpetological diversity. Revista de Biología Tropical, 73(S2): e64536-e64536 - get paper here
  • Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205]
  • Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp.
  • Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., Johnson, J.D. 1988. Middle American Herpetology - A Bibliographic Checklist. University of Missouri Press, 132 pp [review in Copeia 1989 (3): 802]
  • 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.
 
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