Rhinobothryum bovallii

Rhinobothryum bovallii, commonly known as the coral mimic snake or the false tree coral, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Central America and northwestern South America.

Rhinobothryum bovallii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Rhinobothryum
Species:
R. bovallii
Binomial name
Rhinobothryum bovallii
(Andersson, 1916)
Synonyms[1]
  • Rhinobothrium [sic] bovallii
    Andersson, 1916
  • Rhinobothryum [sic] bovalli
    J. Peters, 1960

Etymology

The specific name, bovallii, is in honor of Swedish biologist Carl Bovallius.[2]

Geographic range

R. bovallii is found in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador.[3]

References

  1. Peters JA (1960). "The Snakes of Ecuador, A Check List and Key". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 122 (9): 489-541. ("Rhinobothryum [sic] bovallii ", new combination, p. 537).
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Rhinobothryum bovallii, p. 36).
  3. Species Rhinobothryum bovallii at The Reptile Database

Further reading

  • Andersson LG (1916). "Notes on the reptiles and batrachians in the Zoological Museum at Gothenburg, with an account of some new species". Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskap och Vitter Hets-Samnalles Handlingar Sjatte Foljden (Series B,4) 17 (5) [= Meddelanden fran Göteborgs Musei Zoologiska Afdelning (9)]: 1-41. ("Rhinobothrium [sic] bovallii ", new species, p. 32, Figure 4).
  • Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Rhinobothryum bovallii, p. 109).
  • Rojas-Morales, Julián Andrés (2012). "On the geographic distribution of the false coral snake, Rhinobothryum bovallii (Serpentes: Dipsadidae), in Colombia – a biogeographical perspective". Salamandra 48 (4): 243-248.


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