Elaphe porphyracea

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iBlack-banded Trinket Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Elaphe
Species: E. porphyracea
Binomial name
Elaphe porphyracea
(Cantor, 1839)

The Black-banded Trinket Snake or Red Bamboo Snake (Elaphe porphyracea) is a species of snake.

Distribution: India (Darjeling, Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh (Miao, Namdapha - Changlang district, Itanagar - Papum Pare district), Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Tibet, Nepal, South China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Hong Kong, Hainan, northward to Henan and Gansu; south to Wei He river), Taiwan, West Malaysia (Pahang, Pulau Tioman), Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra).

Races: porphyracea: India; Myanmar; Nepal; People's Republic of China. kawakamii: Taiwan. hainana: People's Republic of China (Hainan). nigrofasciata: Hong Kong; Laos; People's Republic of China; Vietnam. pulchra: People's Republic of China.

Type locality: India: Assam, Mishmi [Mishmee] Hills (Cantor, 1839)


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