A new species of forest snake of the genus Rhadinaea from Tropical Montane Rainforest in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico (Squamata, Dipsadidae)

Abstract. Content of the dipsadid genus Rhadinaea has changed considerably since Myers’ 1974 revision. Three species groups are recognized currently in the genus. Our fieldwork in Oaxaca in June 2018 produced a single specimen of Rhadinaea considered to represent a new taxon. This new species is des...

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Autores principales: Mata-Silva, Vicente, Rocha, Arturo, Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio, Christian Berriozabal-Islas, Wilson, Larry David
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6331510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30647526
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.813.29617
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author Mata-Silva, Vicente
Rocha, Arturo
Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio
Christian Berriozabal-Islas,
Wilson, Larry David
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Rocha, Arturo
Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio
Christian Berriozabal-Islas,
Wilson, Larry David
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description Abstract. Content of the dipsadid genus Rhadinaea has changed considerably since Myers’ 1974 revision. Three species groups are recognized currently in the genus. Our fieldwork in Oaxaca in June 2018 produced a single specimen of Rhadinaea considered to represent a new taxon. This new species is described from converted Premontane Wet Forest in the municipality of Santa Catarina Juquila in the Sierra Madre del Sur of southern Oaxaca, Mexico. It is most closely related to Rhadinaealaureata, from which it can be distinguished easily by color pattern and scutellation, and represents a species group distinct from the other three occupying the genus.
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spelling pubmed-63315102019-01-15 A new species of forest snake of the genus Rhadinaea from Tropical Montane Rainforest in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico (Squamata, Dipsadidae) Mata-Silva, Vicente Rocha, Arturo Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio Christian Berriozabal-Islas, Wilson, Larry David Zookeys Research Article Abstract. Content of the dipsadid genus Rhadinaea has changed considerably since Myers’ 1974 revision. Three species groups are recognized currently in the genus. Our fieldwork in Oaxaca in June 2018 produced a single specimen of Rhadinaea considered to represent a new taxon. This new species is described from converted Premontane Wet Forest in the municipality of Santa Catarina Juquila in the Sierra Madre del Sur of southern Oaxaca, Mexico. It is most closely related to Rhadinaealaureata, from which it can be distinguished easily by color pattern and scutellation, and represents a species group distinct from the other three occupying the genus. Pensoft Publishers 2019-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6331510/ /pubmed/30647526 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.813.29617 Text en Vicente Mata-Silva, Arturo Rocha, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista, Christian Berriozabal-Islas, Larry David Wilson http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Mata-Silva, Vicente
Rocha, Arturo
Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio
Christian Berriozabal-Islas,
Wilson, Larry David
A new species of forest snake of the genus Rhadinaea from Tropical Montane Rainforest in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico (Squamata, Dipsadidae)
title A new species of forest snake of the genus Rhadinaea from Tropical Montane Rainforest in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico (Squamata, Dipsadidae)
title_full A new species of forest snake of the genus Rhadinaea from Tropical Montane Rainforest in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico (Squamata, Dipsadidae)
title_fullStr A new species of forest snake of the genus Rhadinaea from Tropical Montane Rainforest in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico (Squamata, Dipsadidae)
title_full_unstemmed A new species of forest snake of the genus Rhadinaea from Tropical Montane Rainforest in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico (Squamata, Dipsadidae)
title_short A new species of forest snake of the genus Rhadinaea from Tropical Montane Rainforest in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico (Squamata, Dipsadidae)
title_sort new species of forest snake of the genus rhadinaea from tropical montane rainforest in the sierra madre del sur of oaxaca, mexico (squamata, dipsadidae)
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6331510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30647526
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.813.29617
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