Kinkelin Graceful Brown Snake

About the Kinkelin Graceful Brown Snake

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.

The specific name, kinkelini, is in honor of German geologist Georg Friedrich Kinkelin. R. kinkelini is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and in extreme southeastern Mexico in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

The preferred natural habitat of R. kinkelini is forest. R. kinkelini is terrestrial, and it is both diurnal and nocturnal. R. kinkelini is oviparous. 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).

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