Rhadinaea gaigeae BAILEY, 1937

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Gaige's Pine Forest Snake S: Hojarasquera de Gaige
Synonym	Rhadinaea gaigeae BAILEY 1937: 118 Rhadinaea crassa SMITH 1942:190 Rhadinaea crassa — TAYLOR 1949: 196 Rhadinaea crassa — MARTIN 1958 Rhadinaea gaigeae — LINER 1994 Rhadinaea gaigeae — LINER 2007 Rhadinaea gaigeae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 640
Distribution	Mexico (San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Quéretaro, Hidalgo, Guanajuato) crassa (invalid): Mexico (Hidalgo, SE San Luis Potosi, Durango); type locality: Durango, Hidalgo. Type locality: Alvarez, San Luis Potosi
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 19047 (also given as as 4539 or 24983); Paratypes: MCZ R-4539, R-19047, R-24982, R-24984, and R-24985
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (n=6). A Rhadinaea with 17 scale rows throughout; ground color light olive brown with fine black lines through the median and fourth lateral scale rows; a light line, bordering the lateral dark line above, continuous along sides of neck to eye. (Bailey 1937) Additional details (2231 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Group: Rhadinaea decorata group Distribution: Not in Durango fide Lemos-Espinal (2018).
Etymology	Named after Helen Beulah Thompson Gaige (1890-1976), American herpetologist at the University of Michigan. See Bell et al. 2021 for biographical data.
References	Aguilar-Bautista, José Eduardo; Leonardo Fernández-Badillo, and Sara Hernández-Hernández 2015. Rhadinaea gaigeae Bailey, 1937. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (4): 550 - get paper here Bailey, Joseph R. 1937. A new species of Rhadinaea from San Luis Potosi. Copeia 1937 (2): 118-119 - get paper here Bell, R., Arce H, M., Franklin, M., Roa-Varon, A., & Wehrle, B. A. 2021. Helen Thompson Gaige. Ichthyology & Herpetology, 109(1): 322 Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Cruz-Elizalde R, Ramírez-Bautista A, Pineda-López R, Mata-Silva V, DeSantis DL, García-Padilla E, Johnson JD, Rocha A, Fucsko LA, Wilson LD. 2022. The herpetofauna of Querétaro, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 16(1) [General Section]: 148–192 (e308) - get paper here Dixon, James R. and Julio A. Lemos-Espinal 2010. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Queretaro, Mexico. Tlalnepantla UNAM, 428 pp. Fernández-Badillo, Leonardo; Norma Leticia Manríquez-Morán; Jesús Martín Castillo-Cerón & Irene Goyenechea 2016. Análisis herpetofaunístico de la zona árida del estado de Hidalgo. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 156–170 - get paper here Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Woolrich-Piña GA 2018. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with comparisons with adjoining states. ZooKeys 753: 83-106 - get paper here Lemos-Espinal, Julio A. and James R. Dixon 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí. Eagle Mountain Publishing, xii + 300 pp. Lemos-Espinal, Julio A., Geoffrey R. Smith 2015. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Check List 11 (3): 1642 - get paper here Leyte-Manrique A, Mata-Silva V, Báez-Montes O, Fucsko LA, DeSantis DL, García-Padilla E, Rocha A, Johnson JD, Porras LW, Wilson LD. 2022. The herpetofauna of Guanajuato, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 16(2) [General Section: 133–180 (e321) - get paper here Liner, Ernest A. 2007. A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60 - get paper here Smith, Hobart M. 1943. Summary of the collections of snakes and crocodilians made in Mexico under the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship. Proceeding of the U. S. National Museum, 93 (3169): 393-504 - get paper here Taylor, E. H. 1950. Second contribution to the herpetology of San Luis Potosi. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (11): 441-457 - get paper here Taylor,E.H. 1949. A preliminary account of the herpetology of the state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (2): 169-215 - get paper here Tepos-Ramírez M, Garduño-Fonseca FS, Peralta-Robles CA, García-Rubio OR, Cervantes Jiménez R 2023. Annotated checklist of amphibians and reptiles from Querétaro, Mexico, including new records, and comments on controversial species. Check List 19(2): 269-292 - get paper here Terán-Juárez, Sergio A., Elí García Padilla, Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson and Larry David Wilson. 2016. The herpetofauna of Tamaulipas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (1): 43–113 - get paper here Terán-Juárez, Sergio A.; Elí García-Padilla, Francisco E. Leyto-Delgado, and Leccinum J. García- Morales 2015. New records and distributional range extensions for amphibians and reptiles from Tamaulipas, Mexico. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (2): 208-214 - 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. Zepéda-Hernández, Z. K., J. A. Hernández-Melo and F. Torres-Angeles. 2017. Rhadinaea gaigeae Bailey, 1937. Mexico, Hidalgo. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4 (2): 475 - get paper here
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