This gorgeous little snake is a Japanese Forest Rat snake - Euprepiophis Conspiciallatus
photo credits- Python_Bloke on RFUK
Yellow rat snake
Yellow rat snake is the common name given to the North American rat snake subspecies Pantherophis obsoletus quadrivittata (formerly Elaphe obsoleta quadrivittata), whose distribution goes from the vicinity of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, southward along the coast to include all of peninsular Florida except the northwestern part.
Photo credit: ©Kristian Bell | Locality: Florida, US
One of the coolest looking snakes I saw at the Reptile Show - a white-sided black rat snake.
Black-banded Trinket Snake (Red Bamboo Snake)
Oreocryptophis porphyraceus (Colubridae) is a beautiful rat snake native to India, Bhutan, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Tibet, Nepal, S China, Taiwan, West Malaysia, Singapore Islands, and Indonesia.
Oreocryptophis porphyraceus is highly variable with red and yellow/black forms that may or may not have longitudinal stripes. There are al least 8 subspecies.
Reference: [1]
Photo credit: ©Konrad Mebert
Locality: Upper Brinchang, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
Four-lined Ratsnakes (Elaphe quatuorlineata)
Having ontogenetic changes similar to North America’s Eastern Rat Snakes, the European Four-lined Rat Snake, begins life a prominently blotched baby. With each successive shed the blotches fade a little and the adult striping becomes more visible.
text and photos by Richard Bartlett (x)
Radiated Rat Snake (Coelognathus radiatus) from First Choice Reptiles
There he is!
