Trinket snake
| Trinket snake | |
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| Trinket snake from North Bengal, India | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
| Genus: | Coelognathus |
| Species: | C. helenus |
| Binomial name | |
| Coelognathus helena (Daudin, 1803) | |
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The trinket snake (Coelognathus helena) is a nonvenomous constrictor species of colubrid snake native to south Central Asia, in Sri Lanka, southern India, Pakistan (Sind), Nepal, and Bangladesh. Its type locality is India: Vishakhapatnam (Daudin, 1803).
Total length 4.5 feet; tail 10 inches.
Coelognathus helena monticollaris is a subspecies.
Gallery
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Sideview of trinket snake head
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Pattern on first half of body
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Pattern on second half of body
Trinket snake, coiled up
References
- 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.
- Daudin, F. M. (1803). Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particuliere des Reptiles. Vol. 6. F. Dufart, Paris.
- Helfenberger, Notker (2001). Phylogenetic relationship of Old World Ratsnakes based on visceral organ topography, osteology, and allozyme variation. Russ. J. Herpetol. (Suppl.), 56 pp.
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- Kornacker, P. (1988). Bemerkungen zur Biologie, Haltung Zucht von Elaphe helena (Daudin 1802). Herpetofauna 10 (57): 27-33
- Mehta, R.S. (2003). Prey-handling behavior of hatchling Elaphe helena (Colubridae). Herpetologica 59 (4): 469-474
- Niehaus, Guido; Schulz, Klaus-Dieter (1987). Die hinterasiatischen Kletternattern der Gattung Elaphe. Teil XI Elaphe helena (Daudin, 1803). Sauria 9 (4): 3-7
- Schulz, K. D. (1996). Eine Monographie der Schlangengattung Elaphe Fitzinger. Bushmaster, Berg (CH): 1-460
- 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.