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RHADINAEA 



RHADINAEA OECORATA (Gunther) 



1858 Coronella decora ta Gunther, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus.: 35- Type-locality: Mexico. 



I863 [ RhadinaeaJ decorata — Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I863: 101. 



1903 Erythrolamprus long icaudus Werner. Abh. Bayerische Akad. Wiss., 22 (2): Ji8. Type-locality: 



Guatemala. 

 1551 Rhad i naea decorata decorata — Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc 1 . Bull., Ji: 113> pl- H- 



Distribution: Low and moderate elevations, Veracruz, Mexico to Panama on Caribbean slope and 

 locally on Pacific side in western Chiapas, Mexico. 



RHADINAEA GODMANI Gunther 



1865 Dromicus qodmanni Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) 15'- 5^- Type-local 1 ty: Duenas, Guatemala. 

 I876 R.[ hadinae a J qodmanj i . Cope, Jour, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) 8 (I875): I39. 



Distribution: Intermediate elevations on the southwestern highlands of Guatemala into El Salvador. 



Content: Two subspecies. 



Comment: Gunther corrected the spelling of this taxon to godman i in Biol. Cent.Amer., Reptiles, 

 1893, 110, a justified emendation. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Adult males with supra-anal keels; lateral 1. Machos adultos con quillas supra-anales; 



black stripe on fifth and neighboring cinta lateral negra en la quinta hilera de 



edges of fourth and sixth scale rows escamas y en los hordes vecinos de cuarta 



z i Ich i y sexta hileras z llch i 



Adult males lack supra-anal keels; lateral Machos adultos sin quillas supra-anales; 

 black stripe on second through fourth rows cinta lateral negra de la segunda a la 



- godman i cuarta hilera godman i 



Rhad i naea godman i godman i Gijnther 



1952 I Rhad i naea godman i J godman 1 — Mertens, Abh. Senckenb, Naturforsch. Ges., 487: 71' 

 Distribution: Southwestern Guatemala to El Salvador. 



Rhad I naea cfodman i z i Ich i Mertens 



1952 Rhad i naea z i Ich i Mertens, Zool. Anz., 148: 92. Type-locality: Laguna de las Ninfas 



(= Laguna de Apaneca), Volcan de la Lagunita, Departamento Sonsonate, El Salvador, I63O m 



1952 Rhad i naea godman i z i Ich i — Mertens, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 487: ]0, pi. 6, fig. 

 23. 



Distribution: Known only from region of type locality. 

 RHADINAEA GUENTHERI Dunn 



I895 Tachymen i s dec i p iens Gunther (preoccupied in this genus by Ablabes dec i p iens Gunther), Biol. 



Cent. Amer., Rept.: 163, pi. 53» 'fig- A. Type-locality: Irazu, Costa Rica. 

 1938 Rhad i naea gunther i Dunn (replacement name for Tachymen i s dec i p i ens Gunther), Copeia, 1938: I98. 



Distribution: Costa Rica. 



RHADINAEA HEMPSTEADAE Stuart and Bailey 



1941 Rhad i naea hempsteadae Stuart and Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Mich., 442: 2. Type- 

 locality: Cloud forest zone, above F 1 nca Chichen, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, about 57"" ^^' 



Distribution: Intermediate elevations In mountains of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, 

 :!6S^92 0—70 IS 



