Elaphe schrenckii

Elaphe schrenckii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Elaphe
Species: Elaphe schrenckii

Name

Elaphe schrenckii (Strauch, 1873)

• Lectotype: ZISP 3706 (formerly AIS 415), collected by L. von Schrenck in 1856. [designated by Stejneger (1907: 313)]
• Type locality: “Chinggan’schen Wachtposten”, “Ost-Sibirien...im Chinggan-Gebirge”, “Japan, ...wahrscheinlich in der Umgegend von Hakodate”, and “der Bai Possiet und in der Umgegend von Wladiwostok erbeutet”, restricted by lectotype designation to “Chinggan’schen Wachtposten [=Khinggan Military Post]” by Stejneger (1907: 313).

Combinations

• Elaphis Schrenckii Strauch, 1873: 100 [original combination]
• Coluber schrenckii — Boulenger, 1890: 139 [subsequent combination]
• Elaphe schrenckii — Stejneger, 1907: 313 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Elaphis virgatus Boettger, 1888: 72 [synonymised by Wall (1903: 92)]
  • Holotype: SMF 8048a, presented by Otto Franz von Moellendorff.
  • Type locality: “Korea”.

Native distribution areas

• Russia
• Mongolia
• China
• North Korea

References

Primary references

• Strauch, A. 1873. Die Schlangen des Russischen Reichs, in Systematischer und Zoogeographischer Beziehung. Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Septième Série 21(4): 1–288, pls. i–vi. BHL Reference page. 
• Boettger, O. 1888. Materialien zur herpetologischen Fauna von China II. 1. Liste der zweiten von Moellendorff’schen und der Herz’schen und Schmacker’schen Sendungen chinesischer Kriechtriere. Berichte des Offenbacher Vereins für Naturkunde 26–28: 53–102, 2 pls. Reference page. 
• Wall, F. 1903. A prodromus of the snakes hitherto recorded from China, Japan, and the Loo Choo Islands; with some notes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 73(1): 84–102. BHL Reference page. 
• Stejneger, L.H. 1907. Herpetology of Japan and adjacent territory. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 58: xx + 1–577, 35 pls. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Schulz, K.-D. 1996. A monograph of the colubrid snakes of the genus Elaphe Fitzinger. Koeltz Scientific Books: Koenigstein. iii + 439 pp.
• Utiger, U., Helfenberger, N., Schätti, B., Schmidt, C., Ruf, M. & Ziswiler, V. 2002. Molecular Systematics and Phylogeny of Old and New World Ratsnakes, Elaphe Auct., and Related Genera (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 9(2): 105–124. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2002-9-2-105-124 [nonfunctional] Reference page. 
• Schulz, K.-D. 2013. An annotated and illustrated checklist of Old World ratsnakes. pp. 17–268 In Schulz, K.-D. (ed.). Old World Ratsnakes. Bushmaster Publications: Berg, Switzerland.
• Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Elaphe schrenckii. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 9 July 2021.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Amurnatter
English: Amur Ratsnake
Nederlands: De Russische rattenslang of Amoer-rattenslang