Yellow-striped racer (Coelognathus flavolineatus)

Species of Thailand

Yellow-striped racer

Coelognathus flavolineatus, Hermann Schlegel, 1837

(In Thai: งูทางมะพร้าวดำ, ngu taang mapao dam)

Coelognathus flavolineatus, the black copper rat snake or yellow striped snake, is a species of Colubrid snake found in Southeast Asia. This species was previously recognized in the genus Elaphe.

Distribution

Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
India (Andaman Is.)
Indonesia (Jawa, Kalimantan, Sumatera)
Malaysia
Myanmar
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam

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Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Coelognathus
Species: Coelognathus flavolineatus

Common names

German: Gelbstreifennatter
English:
- Black copper rat snake
- Yellow-striped snake
- Yellow-striped trinket snake
- Yellow-striped racer
Thai: งูทางมะพร้าวดำ, ngu taang mapao dam

Synonyms

Coelognathus flavolineatus, Van Stanley Bartholomew Wallach et al. (2014)
Coelognathus flavolineatus, Indraneil Das (2006)
Orthriophis flavolineata, Mark Auliya (2006)
Elaphe flavolineata, De Lange & Gernot Vogel (2005)
Coelognathus flavolineatus, Urs Utiger et al. (2002)
Coelognathus flavolineatus, Hien et al. (2001)
Coelognathus flavolineatus, Notker Helfenberger (2001)
Elaphe flavolineata, Merel J. Cox et al. (1998)
Elaphe flavolineata, Ulrich Manthey & Wolfgang Grossmann (1997)
Elaphe flavolineata, Klaus-Dieter Schulz (1996)
Elaphe flavolineata, Alice Georgie Cruickshank Grandison (1972)
Elaphe flavolineata, Malcolm Arthur Smith (1943)
Coluber melanurus, Theodorus Willem van Lidth de Jeude (1922)
Elaphe flavolineata, Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1922)
Elaphe melanurus, Thomas Barbour (1912)
Elaphe melanura, Thomas Barbour (1912)
Coluber melanurus var. timoriensis, José Júlio Bettencourt Ferreira (1897)
Coluber melanurus, George Albert Boulenger (1894)
Elaphis melanura, Hagen (1890)
Coluber melanurus, Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrech (1887)
Compsosoma melanurum, Johann Gustav Fischer (1885)
Compsosoma melanurum, Albert Charles Lewis Günther (1873)
Compsosoma melanurum, Ferdinand Stoliczka (1870)
Composoma sic melanurum, Albert Charles Lewis Günther (1864)
Elaphis melanurus, Giorgio Jan (1863)
Spilotes melanurus, Albert Charles Lewis Günther (1858)
Compsosoma melanurus, Pieter Bleeker (1857)
Compsosoma melanurum, André Marie Constant Duméril & Gabriel Bibron (1854)
Coluber melanurus, Hermann Schlegel (1837)
Coluber flavolineatus, Hermann Schlegel (1837)
Coluber flavolineata, Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1826)

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Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN3.1)

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Distribution map of Yellow-striped racer, Coelognathus flavolineatus in Thailand — Range map of Coelognathus flavolineatus in Thailand

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