Pearl-banded Rat Snake
Euprepiophis perlaceus (Stejneger, 1929)
Also calledPerlennatter (deu) · užovka perlová (ces) · Крысиная змея Стейнегера (rus) · 横斑锦蛇 (zho) · 橫斑錦蛇 (zho)
First described in: Stejneger, L. A snake from China.
Euprepiophis perlaceus, also known as Sichuan rat snake or pearl-banded rat snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae snake. It is endemic to western Sichuan Province in China. This snake is designated as Endangered by the IUCN Red List. It is found in the Palearctic.
It is one of three species of Asian rat snakes which were formerly assigned to the genus Elaphe. They were separated from Elaphe in 2002 by Utiger et al. following evidence from DNA analysis. It is a true rat snake but it is not as closely related to other northern-hemisphere rat snakes as its former place in Elaphe would suggest.
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 7924675.