Rhadinella pegosalyta (MCCRANIE, 2006)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Rhadinaea pegosalyta MCCRANIE 2006 Rhadinella pegosalyta — MYERS 2011 Rhadinella pegosalyta — WALLACH et al. 2014: 643
Distribution	Honduras (Cortés) Type locality: near visitors’ center of Parque Nacional El Cusuco (15° 31’ N, 88° 12’ W), 1550 m elevation, Departamento de Cortés, Honduras.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 562920
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A member of the Rhadinaea godmani group, as defined by (Myers 1974), that differs from all of its congeners, except R. godmani and R. rogerromani in having 21-21-21 dorsal scale rows. Rhadinaea pegosalyta (Fig. 1) difffers from R. godmani in having red dorsal and ventral surfaces in life (versus dorsal surfaces usually some shade of brown and ventral surfaces always yellow or white and bold dark stripes on scale row five and adjacent upper and lower halves of scale rows four and six and on the vertebral row and adjacent one-third of the paravertebral rows. bold stripes accentuated because of poorly developed supplemental stripes (versus those primary stripes usually narrower and not bold, dark supplementary stripes usually distinct. Rhadinaea pegosalyta differs from R. rogerromani in having the middorsal ground color the same color as the lateral ground color (versus middorsal ground color much darker. poorly developed and broken supplemental stripes (versus stripes on adjacent edges of scale rows eight and nine well developed, continuous), and the sulcus spermaticus bifurcating just below the capitulum (versus sulcus spermaticus bifurcating well below the capitulum (McCranie 2006: 529).
Comment	R. pegosalyta is a member of the R. godmani group.
Etymology	The specific name pegosalyta is the transliterated Greek pegos (strong, solid) and alytos (unbroken, continuous) and alludes to the bold vertebral and lateral stripes of this species.
References	Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp. McCranie J R 2006. New species of snake of the colubrid genus Rhadinaea (godmani group) from Parque Nacional El Cusuco, Honduras. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 119 (4): 528–533. - get paper here McCranie J R 2011. The snakes of Honduras. SSAR, Salt Lake City, 725 pp. McCranie, James R. 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 352–386 - get paper here Myers, Charles W. 2011. A New Genus and New Tribe for Enicognathus melanauchen Jan, 1863, a Neglected South American Snake (Colubridae: Xenodontinae), with Taxonomic Notes on Some Dipsadinae. American Museum Novitates (3715): 1-33 - get paper here Solís, J. M., L. D. Wilson, and J. H. Townsend. 2014. An updated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with comments on their nomenclature. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1: 123–144 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/393503306207607/ Google images

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