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Radiated Ratsnakes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Colubridae Genus: Elaphe Species: E. radiata
Binomial name
Elaphe radiata (F. Boie, 1827)

Radiated Ratsnakes or Copperhead Rat Snake Elaphe radiata is a species of snake. Distribution:

• Indonesia (Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo/Kalimantan, Java),
• Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia); Borneo,
• Singapore Island,
• Burma (Myanmar),
• Thailand (incl. Phuket),
• Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam,
• India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh (Miao - Changlang district, Chessa, Chimpu, Itanagar - Papum Pare district) [A. Captain, pers. comm.]),
• Bangladesh, Nepal,
• S China (Fujian, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hong Kong),
• Nepal

Type locality: Java (Boie, 1827)

• EMBL reptile database

• Barbour, Thomas 1912 Some Chinese Vertebrates: Amphibia and Reptilia. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy 40 (4): 125-136
• Boie, F. 1827 Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien, 1. Lieferung: Ophidier. Isis van Oken, Jena, 20: 508-566.
• Gumprecht, A. 2003 Anmerkungen zu den Chinesischen Kletternattern der Gattung Elaphe (sensu lato) Fitzinger 1833. Reptilia (Münster) 8 (6): 37-41
• Helfenberger, Notker 2001 Phylogenetic relationship of Old World Ratsnakes based on visceral organ topography, osteology, and allozyme variation. Russ. J. Herpetol. (Suppl.), 56 pp.
• Schmidt, D. 1983 Die Strahlennatter, Elaphe radiata (Schlegel). Elaphe 1983 (3): 33-36
• Schulz, Klaus-Dieter 1996 A monograph of the colubrid snakes of the genus Elaphe Fitzinger. Koeltz Scientific Books, 439 pp.
• Utiger, Urs, Notker Helfenberger, Beat Schätti, Catherine Schmidt, Markus Ruf and Vincent Ziswiler 2002 Molecular systematics and phylogeny of Old World and New World ratsnakes, Elaphe Auct., and related genera (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 9 (2): 105-124.

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