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Japanese Four-lined Ratsnake
Elaphe quadrivirgata (Boie, 1826)
Also calledCobra-rateira-de-quatro-listras-japonesa (por) · Japanische Vierstreifennatter (deu) · Japansk Firstribet Rottesnog (dan) · połoz pasiasty (pol) · Малочешуйчатый лазающий полоз (rus) · Малочешуйчатый полоз (rus) · јапанска пругаста змија (srp) · シマヘビ (jpn) · 日本條紋錦蛇 (zho) · 일본세줄무늬뱀 (kor)
First described in: Boie. H. Merkmale einiger japanischer Lurche.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Elaphe quadrivirgata in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2458480.