Rhadinaea

Rhadinaea is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.[1]

Rhadinaea
Rhadinaea flavilata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Dipsadinae
Genus: Rhadinaea
Cope, 1863

Species

The following 21 species are recognized as being valid.[1]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Rhadinaea.

References

Further reading

  • Cope ED (1863). "Descriptions of new American SQUAMATA, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 15: 100–106. (Rhadinæa, new genus, p. 101).


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