Elaphe porphyracea
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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)
[edit] External links
- EMBL reptile database
- http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/ELAPHE_PORPHYRACEA.JPG
- http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/ELAPHE_PORPHYRACEA2.JPG
[edit] References
- Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
- Cantor, T. E. 1839 Spicilegium serpentium indicorum [parts 1 and 2]. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 7: 31-34, 49-55.
- Das, I. 1999 Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. In: Ota,H. (ed) Tropical Island herpetofauna.., Elsevier, pp. 43-77
- Gray, J. E. 1853 Descriptions of some undescribed species of reptiles collected by Dr. Joseph Hooker in the Khassia Mountains, East Bengal, and Sikkim Himalaya. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 12: 386 - 392
- Grossmann, Wolfgang and Klaus Dieter Schulz. 2000 Elaphe porphyracea laticincta Schulz & Helfenberger. Sauria 22 (2):2
- Gumprecht, A. 2003 Anmerkungen zu den Chinesischen Kletternattern der Gattung Elaphe (sensu lato) Fitzinger 1833. Reptilia (Münster) 8 (6): 37-41
- Lenk, P.; Joger, U. & Wink, M. 2001 Phylogenetic relationships among European ratsnakes of the genus Elaphe Fitzinger based on mitochondrial DNA sequence comparisons. Amphibia-Reptilia 22 (3): 329-339
- 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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