Rhadinaea bogertorum, also known commonly as the Oaxacan graceful brown snake and la hojarasquera de Oaxaca in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Mexico.
Etymology The specific name, bogertorum (genetive plural), is in honor of American herpetologist Charles Mitchill Bogert and his wife Martha.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Rhadinaea bogertorum, p. 30).
Geographic range R. bogertorum is endemic to the Mexican state of Oaxaca. www.reptile-database.org.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of R. bogertorum is forest.
Description The holotype of R. bogertorum has a total length of , which includes a tail length of . The dorsal scales are smooth, without apical pits, and in 17 rows throughout the length of the body.Myers CW (1974).
Reproduction R. bogertorum is oviparous.
References
Further reading Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. . Mata-Silva V, Johnson JD, Wilson LD, García-Padilla E (2015). "The herpetofauna of Oaxaca Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status". Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62. Myers CW (1974). "The systematics of Rhadinaea (Colubridae), a genus of New World snakes". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 153 (1): 1–262. (Rhadinaea bogertorum, new species, pp. 59–66, Figures 10J, 11G, 13, Map 5). Ramirez-Bautista A, Mancilla-Moreno M, Smith HM, Chiszar D, van Breukelen F (1998). "Morphological Variation and Relationship of Rhadinaea bogertorum (Squamata: Colubridae), an Endemic Snake of the Sierra de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico". Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 34 (4): 99-122.