Rhadinella pilonaorum (STUART, 1954)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Stuart's Graceful Brown Snake
Synonym	Trimetopon pilonaorum STUART 1954 Trimetopon posadasi — MERTENS 1952: 77 (nec SLEVIN; fide VILLA et al. 1988) Rhadinaea pilonaorum — MYERS 1974 Rhadinaea pilonaorum — VILLA et al. 1988 Rhadinella pilonaorum — MYERS 2011 Rhadinella pilonaorum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 643
Distribution	Guatemala, El Salvador
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: UMMZ 102635
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Myers 1974: 145.
Comment	Distribution: see map in ARIANO-SÁNCHEZ & CAMPBELL 2018: 342 (Fig. 3).
Etymology	Named after Antonio and Marta Pilona, who lived on, and Antonio was administrator of Finca La Gloria, a coffee plantation in Guatemala where Stuart had been a guest. Antonio obtained the holotype.
References	Ariano-Sánchez, D. y J. Campbell. 2018. A new species of Rhadinella (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the dry forest of Motagua Valley, Guatemala. Zootaxa 4442 (2): 338-344 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here CAMPBELL, JONATHAN A. 2015. A new species of Rhadinella (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Pacific versant of Oaxaca, Mexico. Zootaxa 3918 (3): 397–405 - get paper here Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 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 Stuart,L.C. 1954. Descriptions of some new amphibians and reptiles from Guatemala. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 67: 159-178. - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/412404144317523/ Google images

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