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Rhadinophanes monticola MYERS & CAMPBELL, 1981

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Graceful Mountain Snake
S: Culebra Graciosa de Montaña 
SynonymRhadinophanes monticola MYERS & CAMPBELL 1981: 5
Rhadinophanes monticola — LINER 1994
Rhadinophanes monticola — LINER 2007
Rhadinophanes monticola — WALLACH et al. 2014: 644 
DistributionMexico (Guerrero)

Type locality: "1 mile (1.6 km.) north of Puerto del Gallo, 17˚27'N, 100˚09'W, at an elevation of approximately 9000 feet (2750 m.) on Cerro Teótepec, State of Guerrero, Mexico."  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: AMNH 116332, a 357 mm male (J.A. Campbell, 21 May 1974). 
Diagnosis 
CommentType species: Rhadinophanes monticola MYERS & CAMPBELL 1981 is the type species of the genus Rhadinophanes MYERS & CAMPBELL 1981.

Abundance: only known from the specimen(s) described in the original description (fide Campbell et al. 2018)

Similar species: snakes of the genera Rhadinaea and Coniophanes; however, the color pattern of Rhadinophanes monticola is sufficiently distinctive that it could not be associated with Rhadinaea. Rhadinophanes lacks the grooved fangs that characterize Coniophanes. Also, the hemipenial evidence provides argument for separate generic status. 
EtymologyThe species name, ‘monticola’, is Latin for ‘inhabitant of the mountains’ (Latin “colere” = inhabiting).

The genus is named after the Greek rhadinos = slender, graceful + the suffix phanes = appearing), alluding both to the slenderness of the type species and to its superficial similarity to Rhadinaea and Coniophanes. Gender masculine. 
References
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • 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
  • Myers, C W; Campbell J A 1981. A new genus and species of colubrid snake from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico. American Museum Novitates (2708): 1-20 - get paper here
  • Palacios-Aguilar, Ricardo & OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA 2018. An updated checklist of the herpetofauna from Guerrero, Mexico. Zootaxa 4422 (1): 1-24 - 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.
 
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