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Sighthunter
at Mon Mar 13 16:03:46 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Sighthunter ]
Species:
Elaphe prasina
Synonyms:
Coluber prasinus BLYTH 1854: 291
Gonyosoma gramineum G†NTHER 1864 (fide SMITH 1943)
Coluber prasinus - BOULENGER 1894: 59
Elaphe prasina - SMITH 1930
Elaphe prasina - SMITH 1943
Elaphe prasina - TWEEDIE 1950
Elaphe prasina - GRANDISON 1978: 288
Elaphe prasina - SCHULZ 1996: 201
Gonyosoma prasina - DAS 1997
Elaphe prasina - MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 344
Elaphe prasina - COX et al. 1998: 53
Common name:
E: Green Trinket Snake, Green Bush Rat Snake, Green Ratsnake
G: GrŸne Strauchnatter, GrŸne Spitzkopfnatter
Subspecies:
Family:
Colubridae, Serpentes (snakes)
Distribution:
India (Darjeeling, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh (Namdapha - Changlang district) [A. Captain, pers. comm.] ),
Myanmar (= Burma), N Thailand, West Malaysia, Laos ?, Vietnam,
China (Yunnan, Guizhou, Hainan)
Terra typica: Assam (India)
Comment:
Erroneously reported for the Andaman Islands (DAS 1999).
photo: http://www.elaphe.it/image/Elaphe_prasina.jpg
photo: http://www.ratsnakes.com/species.html
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