Radiated Ratsnake

The Radiated Ratsnake or Copperhead Rat Snake, Coelognathus radiata, is a species of Colubrid snake.

Distribution

• Indonesia (Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo/Kalimantan, Java),
• Malaysia and Brunei (Malaya and East Malaysia); Borneo,
• Singapore Island,
• Burma (Myanmar),
• Thailand (including Phuket),
• Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam,
• India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh (Miao - Changlang district, Chessa, Chimpu, Itanagar - Papum Pare district) [A. Captain, pers. comm.]),
• Bangladesh, Nepal,
• South China (Fujian, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hong Kong),
• Nepal ^[2]

Type locality: Java (Boie, 1827)

References

• 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.
• Cantor, T. E. 1839. Spicilegium serpentium indicorum [part 1]. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1839: 31-34
• Chan-ard,T.; Grossmann,W.; Gumprecht,A. & Schulz,K. D. 1999. Amphibians and reptiles of peninsular Malaysia and Thailand - an illustrated checklist [bilingual English and German]. Bushmaster Publications, Würselen, Germany, 240 pp.
• Cox, Merel J.; Van Dijk, Peter Paul; Jarujin Nabhitabhata & Thirakhupt,Kumthorn 1998. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Ralph Curtis Publishing, 144 pp.
• David,P. & Vogel,G. 1996. The snakes of Sumatra. An annotated checklist and key with natural history notes. Bücher Kreth, Frankfurt/M.
• Duméril, ANDRÉ MARIE CONSTANT 1853. Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens. Mém. Acad. Sci., Paris, 23: 399-536
• 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.