Elaphe flavolineata

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Yellow striped Snake

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Elaphe
Species:	E. flavolineata

Binomial name

Elaphe flavolineata
(Schlegel, 1837)

Black Copper Rat Snake or Yellow striped Snake Elaphe flavolineata is a species of snake. Distribution:

Singapore Island, Thailand,
India (Andaman Islands)
Indonesia (Simalur, Billiton, Borneo, Sulawesi),

Indonesia (Bangka, Belitung, Java, Kalimantan, Mentawai Archipelago, Nias, Riau Archipelago, Simeuleue, Sumatra, We); Brunei Darussalam; Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia, Pulau Tioman [HR 34: 388]); Myanmar (Burma)

Type locality: Java and Sumatra (Schlegel, 1837)

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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
Schlegel, H. 1837 Essai sur la physionomie des serpens. Partie Généralxxviii +251 S. + Partie Descriptiv606 S. + xvi. La Haye (J. Kips, J. HZ. et W. P. van Stockum)
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.