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    Species Accepted

    Rhadinaea calligaster (Cope, 1875)

    Thick Graceful Brown Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Rhadinaea
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Grande colubro bruno aggraziato Italian
      Hojarasquera de Vientre Manchado Spanish
      Thick Graceful Brown Snake English
      Tyk Førnebrunsnog Danish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      13 results
      Peters, James A.; Donoso-Barros, Roberto & Orejas-Miranda, Braulio. (1970). Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part I Snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 347 Pp.
      Cope, E. D. (1875). On the Batrachia and Reptilia of Costa Rica with notes on the herpetology and ichthyology of Nicaragua and Peru. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia N.S. (2) 8: 93-183 [Sometimes Said to Be Published 1876 but See Murphy et Al. 2007 for Clarification]].
      Solorzano, A. (2004). Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 Pp.
      Savage, J. M. (2002). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 Pp. [Review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205].
      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.
      Sasa, M., Arias, E., & Chaves, G. (2025). Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: The role of the Museum of Zoology in cataloging the country’s herpetological diversity. Revista de Biología Tropical, 73(S2): E64536-E64536.
      Goldberg, S. R., & Bursey, C. R. (2007). Coelomic helminths of five colubrid snake species (Serpentes, Colubridae) from Costa Rica. Phyllomedusa 6 (1): 69-72.
      Köhler, G. (2008). Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 Pp.
      Mata-Silva, V, DeSantis DL, García-Padilla E, Johnson JD, Wilson LD. (2019). The endemic herpetofauna of Central America: a casualty of anthropocentrism. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1) [General Section]: 1–64 (E168).
      Boulenger, George A. (1894). Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, Xi, 382 Pp.

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