Species of Thailand
Yellow-striped racer
Thai: งูทางมะพร้าวดำ, ngu taang mapao dam
Binomial name: Coelognathus flavolineatus, Hermann Schlegel, 1837
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)
- Orthriophis flavolineata, Mark Auliya (2006)
- Coelognathus flavolineatus, Indraneil Das (2006)
- Elaphe flavolineata, De Lange & Gernot Vogel (2005)
- Coelognathus flavolineatus, Urs Utiger et al. (2002)
- Coelognathus flavolineatus, Notker Helfenberger (2001)
- Coelognathus flavolineatus, Hien et al. (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)
- Elaphe flavolineata, Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1922)
- Coluber melanurus, Theodorus Willem van Lidth de Jeude (1922)
- Elaphe melanura, Thomas Barbour (1912)
- Elaphe melanurus, 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 flavolineatus, Hermann Schlegel (1837)
- Coluber melanurus, Hermann Schlegel (1837)
- Coluber flavolineata, Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1826)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN3.1)
Coelognathus flavolineatus
Coelognathus flavolineatus
- Bang Nara
- Bannang Sata District, Yala
- Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary
- Kaeng Krachan National Park
- Khao Luang National Park
- Khao Yai National Park
- Pak Chong District, Nakhon Ratchasima
- Wang Nam Khiao District, Nakhon Ratchasima
Range map of Coelognathus flavolineatus in Thailand
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