Chinese Beauty Snake

Elaphe taeniura taeniura

Classification

Class: Squamata
Order: —
Family: Colubridae

The beauty rat snake (Elaphe taeniura), also called the beauty ratsnake, the beauty snake, or the cave racer, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to the eastern and southeastern regions of Asia. It is a long, thin, semi-arboreal species of snake with several recognized subspecies.

Distribution

Chinese Beauty Snake — (c) Thai National Parks, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Belgium · 2

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Thai National Parks, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA DescriptionBeauty rat snake, Wikipedia contributors

Chinese Beauty Snake

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