Elaphe anomala

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 anomala

Elaphe anomala (Boulenger, 1916)

Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.13.1 (formerly BMNH 1916.1.15.20), ♂, collected by A.L. Hall.
Type locality: “Chihfeng, N. E. Chihli Prov., northern China”.

Coluber anomalus Boulenger, 1916: 243 [original combination]
Elaphe anomalus – Sowerby, 1930: 17 [subsequent combination]
Elaphe schrenckii anomala – Pope, 1935: 266 [subsequent combination, reduce to subspecies]
Elaphe anomala – Ji & Wen, 1997 [subsequent combination, restaure to species]

Elaphe schrencki besenbruchi Müller, 1923: 150
- Holotype: ZSM 533/1911, subadult ♂, collected by Besenbruch in 1910.
- Type locality: “Tsingtau (Prov. Shangtung), China”.

Elaphe maculata Ma & Zong, 1984: 59
- Holotype: SMNH 83IX901, adult ♂, bought from Shanghai Yuyuan Animal Store on 19 September 1983.
- Type locality: “Dafeng, Jiangsu”.

Boulenger, G.A. 1916. Description of a new snake of the genus Coluber from northern China. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 8 17: 243–244. BHL
Müller, L. 1923. Neue oder seltene Reptilien und Batrachier der Zoologischen Sammlung des bayrischen Staats. Zoologischer Anzeiger 57(7–8): 145–156. BHL
Pope, C.H. 1935. The reptiles of China: turtles, crocodilians, snakes, lizards. American Museum of Natural History: New York. lii + 604 pp., 27 pls. BHL Reference page.
Ma, J. & Zong, Y. 1984. [A new species of the genus Elaphe - Elaphe maculata] (in Chinese). Acta Herpetologica Sinica 3(3): 59–60.
Ji, D.-M. & Wen, S.-S. 1997. [Elaphe anomala is an effective species (Serpentiformes)] (in Chinese). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 22(4): 436–440.

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.

English: Korean Ratsnake