Elaphe prasina

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Green Trinket Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Elaphe
Species: E. prasina
Binomial name
Elaphe prasina
(Blyth, 1854)

Green Trinket Snake, Green Bush Rat Snake or Green Ratsnake Elaphe prasina is a species of snake. Its habitat ranges include India (Darjeeling, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh (Namdapha - Changlang district) [A. Captain, pers. comm.] ), Myanmar (Burma), northern Thailand, west Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, and China (Yunnan, Guizhou, Hainan).


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  • Blyth, EDWARD. 1855 Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little known [part 2]. Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 23 (3): 287-302 [1854]
  • Boulenger, George A. 1894 Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp.
  • 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
  • Grossmann, W. 2002 Elaphe prasina (Blyth). Sauria (Suppl.) 24 (3): 573-576
  • 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.