Rhadinella kinkelini, also known commonly as the Kinkelin graceful brown snake, Kinkelin's graceful brown snake, and la hojarasquera de Kinkelin in Central American Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to Central America.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Rhadinella |
| Species: | R. kinkelini
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhadinella kinkelini (Boettger, 1898)
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Etymology
editThe specific name, kinkelini, is in honor of German geologist Georg Friedrich Kinkelin.[3]
Geographic range
editR. kinkelini is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and in extreme southeastern Mexico in the Mexican state of Chiapas.[2]
Habitat
editBehavior
editR. kinkelini is terrestrial, and it is both diurnal and nocturnal.[1]
Reproduction
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Campbell, J.A.; Muñoz-Alonso, A. (2013). "Rhadinella kinkelini ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T63896A3130874. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Species Rhadinella kinkelini at The Reptile Database
- ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Rhadinaea kinkelini, p. 141).
Further reading
edit- Boettger O (1898). Katalog der Reptilien-Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. II. Teil (Schlangen). Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Naturmuseum Senckenberg. (Gebrüder Knauer, printers). ix + 160 pp. (Rhadinaea kinkelini, new species, p. 68). (in German).
- Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
- Hofmann, Erich P.; Mason, Andrew J.; Townsend, Josiah H.; Galeano, Carlos Andino; Vindel, José Anibal; Parkinson, Christopher L. (2019). "Rhadinella kinkelini (Kinkelin's Graceful Brown Snake). Reproduction and Distribution". Herpetological Review 50 (2): 402–403.
- McCranie JR, Wilson LD (1991). "Rhadinaea kinkelini Boettger". Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 523: 1–2.
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