Rhadinella kinkelini explained

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.

Etymology

The specific name, kinkelini, is in honor of German geologist Georg Friedrich Kinkelin.^[1]

Geographic range

R. kinkelini is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and in extreme southeastern Mexico in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of R. kinkelini is forest.

Behavior

R. kinkelini is terrestrial, and it is both diurnal and nocturnal.

Reproduction

R. kinkelini is oviparous.

Further reading

• 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. .
• 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.

Notes and References

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