Notes in Colombian Herpetology, I: A new snake of the Genus Rhadinaea Notes in Colombian Herpetology, I: A new snake of the Genus Rhadinaea

• Main Author: Dunn Emmett Reid
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 1943-12-01
• Series: Caldasia
• Subjects: Herpetology of Colombia; Colombian snakes; Rhadinaea; Rhadinaea antioquiensis sp. nov.
• Online Access: http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/cal/article/view/31955

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: " lang="EN-US">The following brief contribution to the Herpetology of Colombia is; the first of a projected series which I hope to make under the auspices of the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia and of the Commitee for Inter-American Artistic and Intellectual Relations. For the opportunity to make this and other studies I am indebted to the Director of the Instituto, Dr. Armando Dugand, and to the Committee. I also wish to make similar aknowledgements to Hermano Nicéforo Maria of the Instituto de La Sane for the privilege of being allowed to examine the specimens in his charge.   I hope to be able to make a revision of the whole group of Colombian snakes allied to Rhadinaea. I here offer only the description</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: " lang="EN-US"> of a rather striking new form, which may be called.</span></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: " lang="EN-US">The following brief contribution to the Herpetology of Colombia is; the first of a projected series which I hope to make under the auspices of the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia and of the Commitee for Inter-American Artistic and Intellectual Relations. For the opportunity to make this and other studies I am indebted to the Director of the Instituto, Dr. Armando Dugand, and to the Committee. I also wish to make similar aknowledgements to Hermano Nicéforo Maria of the Instituto de La Sane for the privilege of being allowed to examine the specimens in his charge.   I hope to be able to make a revision of the whole group of Colombian snakes allied to Rhadinaea. I here offer only the description</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: " lang="EN-US"> of a rather striking new form, which may be called</span></p>