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MacDougall's Graceful Brown Snake
Rhadinaea macdougalli
Rhadinaea macdougalli, also known commonly as MacDougall's graceful brown snake and la hojarasquera de MacDougall in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to southeastern Mexico.
From the article Rhadinaea macdougalli on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Rhadinaea macdougalli is a small brown snake, with some faint light lines. The dorsal scales are arranged in 17 rows at midbody. The ventrals number about 119. The subcaudals number about 75 in males, fewer in females.
In human culture
The specific name, macdougalli, is in honor of naturalist Thomas Baillie MacDougall.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 28804.