Ptyas multicincta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Ptyas
Species: Ptyas multicincta

Ptyas multicincta (Roux, 1907)

Ablabes multicinctus Roux, 1907: 762 [original combination]
Eurypholis multicinctus — Pope, 1935: 281 [subsequent combination]
Liopeltis multicinctus — Angel & Bourret, 1933 [subsequent combination]
Liopeltis major multicinctus — Bourret, 1936 [subsequent combination, reduced to subspecies]
Opheodrys multicinctus — Schmidt & Necker, 1936: 64 [subsequent combination]
Eurypholis multicinctus — Pope, 1936 [subsequent combination]
Entechinus multicinctus — Cundall, 1981 [subsequent combination]
Cyclophiops multicinctus — Zhao & Adler, 1993 [subsequent combination]
Ptyas multicincta — Figueroa, KcKelvy, Grismer, Bell & Lailvaux, 2016: 21 [subsequent combination, by implication]

Roux, Jean. 1907. Diagnosen neuer Reptilien aus Asien und Amerika. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31(24): 762–765. 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.
Schmidt, K.P. & Necker, W.L. 1936. The Scientific Name of the American Smooth Green Snake. Herpetologica 1(1): 63–64. JSTOR
Cundall, D. 1981. Cranial osteology of the colubrid snake genus Opheodrys. Copeia 1981(2): 353–371. JSTOR Reference page.
Figueiroa, A., McKelvy, A.D., Grismer, L.L., Bell, C.D. & Lailvaux, S.P. 2016. A Species-Level Phylogeny of Extant Snakes with Description of a New Colubrid Subfamily and Genus. PLoS ONE 11(9): e0161070. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161070 Reference page.

Thy, N. & Nguyen, T.Q. 2012. IUCN: Ptyas multicincta (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T192206A2055610. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T192206A2055610.en. Accessed on 14 January 2026.