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Oocatochus
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Oocatochus

Oocatochus is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Oocatochus rufodorsatus. It is known as the Chinese garter snake, frog-eating rat snake, or red-backed rat snake.

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species

Frog-eating Rat Snake

speciesOocatochus rufodorsatus

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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 90470.