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Rhadinaea laureata (GÜNTHER, 1868)

IUCN Red List - Rhadinaea laureata - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Crowned Graceful Brown Snake
S: Hojarasquera de Coronada 
SynonymDromicus laureatus GÜNTHER 1868: 419
Dromicus laureatus — GARMAN 1884: 57
Erythrolamprus grammophrys DUGÈS 1888
Rhadinaea laureata — BOULENGER 1894: 179
Rhadinaea laureata — 1900: 755
Rhadinaea laureata — SMITH & TAYLOR 1945: 118
Rhadinaea laureata — SCHMIDT 1947
Rhadinaea laureata — LINER 1994
Rhadinaea laureata — LINER 2007
Rhadinaea laureata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 640 
DistributionMexico (Jalisco, Michoacan, C Durango, Morelos, Chihuahua)

Type locality: Mexico (City)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.1.9.2, 1892.10.31.47-50
Holotype: MDUG HE 112 [Erythrolamprus grammophrys] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Myers 1974: 54.


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Comment 
Etymology“The specific epithet evidently is formed of the noun laureus (the laurel tree or, by extension, a crown of laurel or a crown in general) plus the suffix -ata (provided with), in allusion to the pale lines that set off the dark top of the head” (MYERS, 1974).  
References
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  • Castro-Franco, Rubén, María Guasalupe Bustos-Zagal 1994. List of reptiles of Morelos, Mexico, and their distribution in relation to vegetation types. Southwestern Naturalist 39 (2): 171-175 - get paper here
  • Davis, William B.; Smith, Hobart M. 1953. Snakes of the Mexican state of Morelos. Herpetologica 8: 133-149 - get paper here
  • Dugès, A. 1888. Sur deux espèces nouvelles de ophidiens de Mexique. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 25: 181–183 - get paper here
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  • Flores-Villela,O. 1993. Herpetofauna Mexicana; lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de Mexico, cambios taxonomicos recientes, y nuevas especies. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 17: 73 pp. - get paper here
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  • Rojo-Gutiérrez, Juan Rubén; David Jaimes-Rodríguez , Daniel Cruz-Sáenz , Laura López-Fernández , Enrique Chávez-Uribe and David Lazcano 2018. Notes on the Herpetofauna of Western Mexico 19: An Update to the Herpetofauna of Volcán de Tequila in Jalisco, Mexico. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 53(8):165-169 - get paper here
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