Rhinobothryum bovallii
Appearance
Rhinobothryum bovallii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Colubridae |
Genus: | Rhinobothryum |
Species: | R. bovallii
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Binomial name | |
Rhinobothryum bovallii (Andersson, 1916)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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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.
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
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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.