Asian Rat Snakes
Ptyas
Ptyas is a genus of colubrid snakes. This genus is one of several colubrid genera colloquially called "rat snakes" or "ratsnakes".
14 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 14 known species
Oriental Rat Snake
speciesPtyas mucosa
Chinese Green Snake
speciesPtyas major
Indo-Chinese Rat Snake
speciesPtyas korros
Big-Eyed Ratsnake
speciesPtyas dhumnades
Brown Rat Snake
speciesPtyas fusca
Keeled Rat Snake
speciesPtyas carinata
South China Green Snake
speciesPtyas multicincta
Ryukyu Green Snake
speciesPtyas semicarinata
Green Rat Snake
speciesPtyas nigromarginata
Sakashima green snake
speciesPtyas herminae
Smooth-scaled Mountain Rat Snake
speciesPtyas luzonensis
Sulawesi Black Racer
speciesPtyas dipsas
Bach Ma green rat snake
speciesPtyas bachmaensis
Hampton's Green Snake
speciesPtyas doriae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 28865.