Rhadinella serperaster (COPE, 1871)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Rhadinaea serperaster COPE 1871: 212 Rhadinaea serperastra — BOULENGER 1894: 172 Rhadinaea serperastra — TAYLOR 1951: 112 Rhadinaea serperaster — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 268 Rhadinaea serperaster — VILLA et al. 1988 Rhadinaea serperaster — SAVAGE 2002: 626 Rhadinaea serperastra (fide HAGEDORN, pers. comm.) Rhadinella serperaster — MYERS 2011 Rhadinella serperaster — WALLACH et al. 2014: 644 Rhadinella serperaster — CURLIS et al. 2020
Distribution	Costa Rica Type locality: Costa Rica, San Jose.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ANSP 3739
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Myers 1974: 150.
Comment	Distribution: all records of Rhadinaea serperaster from Panama (e.g., Dunn 1947) are based on misidentified specimens of the similar Rhadinella godmani, which appears to be endemic to Costa Rica (Savage 2002, S. Lotzkat, pers. comm., 23 Dec 2014).
Etymology	Named after Latin serperastra, knee-splints, knee-bandages (to straighten the legs of children). [“...Dark brown, with six longitudinal yellow or white lines...”].
References	Acosta-Chaves, Víctor J.; Gerardo Chaves, Juan G. Abarca, Adrián García-Rodríguez, Federico Bolaños 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Río Macho Biological Station, Provincia de Cartago, Costa Rica. Check List 11 (6): 1784 - get paper here Boulenger, George A. 1894. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp. - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1871. Ninth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 23: 200-224 - get paper here Curlis JD, Fisher EC, Muhic WK, Moy J, Garro-Cruz M, Montero-Ramírez JJ 2020. A survey of the reptiles and amphibians at the University of Georgia Costa Rica field station in San Luis de Monteverde, Costa Rica. Check List 16(6): 1433-1456 - 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 O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - 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. Taylor,E.H. 1951. A brief review ot the snakes of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 34 (1): 3-188 - get paper here Taylor,E.H. 1954. Further studies on the serpents of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 36: 673-800. - get paper here 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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