{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Rhinocheilus lecontei tessellatus.jpg | image_caption = Texas long-nosed snake (''Rhinocheilus lecontei tessellatus'') | taxon = Rhinocheilus | authority = Baird & Girard, 1853 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = Three recognized species, see article. }}

'''''Rhinocheilus''''' is a genus of snakes, commonly called the '''long-nosed snakes''', in the family Colubridae.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/search/all/key/rhinocheilus/match/1|title= Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist.|veditors=Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, Baillargeon G, Ouvrard D|year=2011|publisher=Species 2000: Reading, UK.|accessdate=19 February 2016}}</ref> The genus is native to the western United States and Mexico.

==Species and subspecies== The genus ''Rhinocheilus'' contains the following species and subspecies which are recognized as being valid.<ref>{{EMBL genus|genus=Rhinocheilus}}. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> *''Rhinocheilus antonii'' {{small|Dugès, 1886}} *''Rhinocheilus etheridgei'' {{small|Grismer, 1990}} – Etheridge's long-nosed snake<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Rhinocheilus etheridgei'', p. 86).</ref> *''Rhinocheilus lecontei'' {{small|Baird & Girard, 1853}} – long-nosed snake **''Rhinocheilus lecontei lecontei'' {{small|Baird & Girard, 1853}} – western long-nosed snake **''Rhinocheilus lecontei tessellatus'' {{small|Garman, 1883}} – Texas long-nosed snake

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==Further reading== {{Commons}} *Baird SF, Girard C (1853). ''Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part I.—Serpents.'' Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution. xvi + 172 pp. (''Rhinocheilus'', new genus, p.&nbsp;120).

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