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DeutschRhinobothryum bovallii
| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhinobothryum bovallii (Andersson, 1916) | |
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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 native to Central America and northwestern South America.
Etymology[edit]
The specific name, bovallii, is in honor of Swedish biologist Carl Bovallius.[3]
Geographic range[edit]
R. bovallii is found in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador.[4]
Habitat[edit]
The preferred natural habitat of R. bovallii is forest, at altitudes from sea level to 900 m (3,000 ft).[1]
Reproduction[edit]
R. bovallii is oviparous.[1][4]
Mimicry[edit]
R. bovallii mimics two sympatric species of venomous snakes, Micrurus alleni and Micrurus nigrocinctus.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Arredondo, J.C.; Cisneros-Heredia, D.F.; Rivas, G.; Sunyer, J.; Townsend, J.H. (2017). "Rhinobothryum bovallii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T177498A1489023. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T177498A1489023.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Peters JA (1960). "The Snakes of Ecuador, A Check List and Key". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 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).
- ^ a b c Species Rhinobothryum bovallii at The Reptile Database
Further reading[edit]
- 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.
- Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M.; Infante-Rivero, Edwin E. (2018). "Redescubrimiento de las serpientes Rhinobothryium bovallii (Andersson, 1916) y Plesiodipsas perijanensis (Alemán, 1953) en Venezuela". Memoria de la Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales 76 (184): 83–92. (in Spanish, with an abstract in English).
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