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Rhadinaea flavilata (COPE, 1871)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Pine Woods Snake, Pine Woods Littersnake
G: Kiefernwaldschlange 
SynonymDromicus flavilatus COPE 1871: 222
Dromicus flavilatus — COUES & YARROW 1878: 27
Dromicus flavilatus — GARMAN 1884: 58
Liophis flavilatus — BOULENGER 1894: 143
Rhadinaea flavilata — COPE 1893: 428
Rhadinaea flavilata — COPE 1900: 759
Rhadinea flavilata — BROWN 1901: 88
Leirnadophis flavilatus — STEJNEGER & BARBOUR 1917: 36
Leimadophis flavilatus — ALLEN 1932
Urotheca flavilatus — ROZE 1958 (by implication)
Rhadinaea flavilata — MYERS 1974: 49
Rhadinaea flavilata — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 181
Rhadinaea flavilata — CROTHER 2000
Rhadinaea flavilata — CROTHER et al. 2012
Rhadinaea flavilata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 639 
DistributionUSA (SE Louisiana, S Mississippi, S Alabama, SE Georgia, Florida, S/E South Carolina, SE North Carolina)

Type locality: Fort Macon, North Carolina.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost, originally ANSP 5583 (now lost fide MYERS 1974) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Myers 1974: 49


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin flavus, yellow, golden, gold colored + Latin latus, bring, bear. [“...Color above, a rich golden brown, the scales of the two inferior rows on each side broadly gold-edged...”]. 
References
  • Akcali, Christopher K. 2017. Rhadinaea flavilata (Pine Woods Littersnake) Diurnal activity. Herpetological Review 48 (1): 219 - get paper here
  • Allen, E. 1939. Habits of Rhadinaea flavilata. Copeia, 1939(3), 175-175 - get paper here
  • Allen, Morrow J. 1932. A survey of the Amphibians and reptiles of Harrison County, Mississippi. American Museum Novitates (542): 1-20 - get paper here
  • Camper, Jeffrey D. 2019. The Reptiles of South Carolina. University of South Carolina Press, 288 pp. [review in Copeia 107 (3): 590, 2019] - get paper here
  • Conant,R. & Collins,J.T. 1991. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern/Central North America, 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin (Boston/New York), xx + 450 p.
  • Cope, E.D. 1871. Ninth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 23: 200-224 - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1877. On Some New and Little Known Reptiles and Fishes from the Austroriparian Region. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 17 (100): 63-68 - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1900. The crocodilians, lizards and snakes of North America. Ann. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. 1898: 153-1270 - get paper here
  • Coues, E. & Yarrow, H.C. 1878. Notes on the natural history of Fort Macon, N.C., and vicinity. (No.4). Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1878: 21-28 - get paper here
  • Crother, B. I. (ed.) 2012. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92
  • DeVos, T., & Bluestein, S. 2024. A recent observation of the northernmost documented population of the Pine Woods Littersnake (Rhadinaea flavilata) on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Reptiles & Amphibians, 31(1), e21165-e21165 - get paper here
  • Dundee, H.A., & Rossman, D.A. 1989. The amphibians and reptiles of Louisiana. Louisiana St. Univ. Press, Baton Rouge 300 pp.
  • Enge, Kevin M. 1994. Rhadinaea flavilata (pine woods snake). USA: Florida. Herpetological Review 25 (4): 168 - get paper here
  • Enge, Kevin M. 2009. Venomous and non-venomous snakes of Florida. Publication of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission. 16 pp.
  • Ernst, C.H., & Barbour, R.W. 1989. Snakes of eastern North America. George Mason Univ. Press, Fairfax, VA 282 pp.
  • Garman, Samuel 1884. The reptiles and batrachians of North America. Mem. Mus. comp. Zool, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 8 (3): xxxiv + 185 pp. [1883] [CNAH reprint 10] - get paper here
  • Goldberg, S R; 2019. Rhadinaea flavilata (Pine Woods Littersnake) Reproduction. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 401-402 - get paper here
  • Guyer, Craig; Mark A. Bailey, and Robert H. Mount 2018. Lizards and snakes of Alabama. University of Alabama Press, 397 pp. - get paper here
  • HIllman, April C., Kelly C. Jones and Aaron N. Dugan. 2015. Geographic Distribution: Rhadinaea flavilata (Pine Woods Littersnake). Herpetological Review 46 (4): 576 - get paper here
  • Irwin, Kelly J.;Collins, Suzanne L.;Collins, Joseph T. 1993. Rhadinaea flavilata (pine woods snake). USA: Florida. Herpetological Review 24 (3): 110 - get paper here
  • Jensen, John B.; Carlos D. Camp, Whit Gibbons, & Matt J. Elliott 2008. Amphibians and reptiles of Georgia. University of Georgia Press, 575 pp.
  • Malnate, Edmond 1939. A study of the yellow-lipped snake, Rhadinaea flavilata (Cope). Zoologica 24: 359-366 + 1 plate - get paper here
  • McKelvy, Alexander D.; Ashley Ozelski-McKelvy, Alex Figueroa 2016. A new non-coastal record for the Pine Woods Littersnake, Rhadinaea flavilata Cope, 1871 (Squamata: Colubridae), in Russell County, Alabama, USA. Check List 12 (3): 1-8 - get paper here
  • Mueller, N J & Mays, J D; 2019. Rhadinaea flavilata (Pine Woods Littersnake) Precipitation and behavior. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 401 - get paper here
  • Myers, Charles W. 1967. The pine woods snake, Rhadinaea flavilata (Cope). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 11 (2): 47-97 - get paper here
  • Nelson, David H.;Cochran, Justin D.;Drew, Corbert G.;Schwaner, Terry D. 1994. Rhadinaea flavilata (pine woods snake). USA: Alabama. Herpetological Review 25 (1): 34 - get paper here
  • Netting, M. Graham 1936. Rhadinaea flavilata (Cope) in Texas. Copeia 1936 (2): 114 - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • Palmer, W.M. & Braswell, A.L. 1995. Reptiles of North Carolina. Univ. North Carolina Press
  • Powell, E A; Howell, H J & Clements, S L 2018. Geographic Distribution: Rhadinaea flavilata (Pine Woods Snake). Herpetological Review 49 (3): 507 - get paper here
  • Smith, L; Walker, S & Durso, A M 2018. Rhadinaea flavilata (Pinewoods Snake) Diet and defensive behavior. Herpetological Review 49 (3): 556 - get paper here
  • Stevenson, Dirk J. and Kevin M. Enge. 2013. Geographic Distribution: Rhadinaea flavilata (pine woods littersnake). Herpetological Review 44 (2): 275 - get paper here
  • Tennant, A. 2003. Snakes of North America - Eastern and Central Regions, revised edition. Lone Star Books, 605 pp.
  • Tennant, A. & Bartlett, R.D. 2000. Snakes of North America - Eastern and Central Regions. Gulf Publishing, Houston, TX, 588 pp.
  • 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.
  • Walley, H.D. 1998. Rhadinaea flavilata. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (699): 1-5 - get paper here
  • Whiteman, Howard H.;Mills, Tony M.;Scott, David E.;Gibbons, J. Whitfield 1995. Confirmation of a range extension for the pine woods snake (Rhadinaea flavilata). Herpetological Review 26 (3): 158 - get paper here
  • Willard, D.E. 1967. Evidence for Toxic Saliva in Rhadinaea flavilata (The Yellow Lipped Snake) Herpetologica 23 (3): 238. - get paper here
 
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