Rhadinella posadasi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Dipsadinae
Genus: Rhadinella
Species: Rhadinella posadasi

Name

Rhadinella posadasi (Slevin, 1936)

• Holotype: CAS 66964, adult ♂, collected by Joseph R. Slevin on 8 August 1924.
• Type locality: “Southern slope Volcan Zunil, Suchitepequez, Guatemala”.

Combinations

• Trimetopon posadasi Slevin, 1936: 79 [original combination]
• Rhadinella posadasi — Myers, 1974: 147 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Slevin, J.R. 1936. A new Central American snake. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series 23(4): 79–81. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Rhadinella posadasi. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 4 October 2019.
• Johnson, J., Acevedo, M. & Ariano-Sánchez, D. 2014. IUCN: Rhadinella posadasi  (Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T198403A2525526. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T198403A2525526.en

Vernacular names

English: Posada's Graceful Brown Snake
español: Culebra café de Posada