Pine woods snake

Pine woods snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Rhadinaea
Species:
R. flavilata
Binomial name
Rhadinaea flavilata
(Cope, 1871)
Synonyms
  • Dromicus flavilatus Cope, 1871
  • Liophis flavilatus
    — Boulenger, 1894
  • Rhadinæa flavilata
    — Cope, 1895
  • Leimadophis flavilatus
    — Stejneger & Barbour, 1917
  • Rhadinaea flavilata
    — Myers, 1974[2][3][4]

The pine woods snake (Rhadinaea flavilata), also commonly known as the yellow-lipped snake or the brown-headed snake,[5] is a species of secretive colubrid found in scattered locations across the south-eastern United States. Rhadinaea flavilata is rear-fanged and mildly-venomous, but not dangerous to humans.[6]

Adult
Detail of head
  1. ^ Hammerson, G.A. (2007). "Rhadinaea flavilata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T63890A12718305. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ Boulenger GA. 1894. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Liophis flavilatus, p. 143).
  3. ^ Stejneger L, Barbour T. 1917. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 125 pp. (Leimadophis flavilatus, pp. 86-87).
  4. ^ "Rhadinaea flavilata ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  5. ^ Wright AH, Wright AA. 1957. Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates. 1,105 pp. (in 2 volumes). (Rhadinaea flavilata, pp. 627-631, Figure 182, Map 47).
  6. ^ Smith HM, Brodie ED Jr. 1982. Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. New York: Golden Press. 240 pp. ISBN 0-307-13666-3. ("Front-grooved, rear-fanged group", Rhadinaea flavilata, pp. 176-177).