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Oocatochus rufodorsatus (CANTOR, 1842)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Frog-eating Rat Snake, Red-backed Rat Snake
G: Rotbauch-Kletternatter, Rotrückennatter
Russian: Красноспинный полоз
Chinese: 红纹滞卵蛇 
SynonymTropidonotus rufodorsatus CANTOR 1842
Ablabes sex-lineatus DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 324
Coluber rufodorsatus — GÜNTHER 1864: 238
Coronella sexlineata — JAN 1865
Simotes Conradi PETERS 1874: 376
Simotes Herzi BOETTGER 1886: 519
Coluber rufodorsatus — GÜNTHER 1888: 170
Ablabes rufodorsatus — BOULENGER 1890: 138
Coluber rufodorsatus — BOULENGER 1894: 43
Elaphe rufodorsata — STEJNEGER 1907: 310
Elaphe rufodorsata coreensis STEWART 1970 (nomen nudum)
Elaphe rufodorsata — SZYNDLAR 1984
Elaphe rufodorsata — SCHULZ 1996: 225
Oocatochus rufodorsatus — HELFENBERGER 2001
Oocatochus rufodorsatus — UTIGER et al. 2002
Oocatachus rufodorsatus] — LAWSON et al. 2005
Oocatochus rufodorsatus — ANANJEVA et al. 2006
Oocatochus rufodorsatus — ZHAO 2006: 235
Elaphe rufodorsata — SEUNG HOON 2012: 231
Oocatochus rufodorsatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 505
Oocatochus rufodorsatus — WANG et al. 2022 
DistributionRussia (Primorskiy Territory, Amur Oblast),
Korea, Taiwan,
NE China (west to Shanxi, south to Hubei and Fujian; Jiangxi, Chekiang, Hupeh, Anhwei, Kiangsu, Shantung = Shandong, Hopei)

Type locality: China: Zhejiang, Chusan island (Cantor, 1842)
Type locality: “Bangkok” [see note] [Simotes Conradi]  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.1.7.32–33 (formerly BMNH 1843.7.21.34), adult females.
Holotype: ZMB 8186 [Simotes Conradi] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (223 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentCantor is cited after STEJNEGER 1907 who doesn’t give the page number of CANTOR’s three-part paper on Chusan (so the description might be in one of the other two).

Synonymy partly after STEJNEGER 1907.

The type locality of Simotes Conradi may be in error as E. rufodorsata does not occur in Thailand (P. David, pers. comm.).

Type species: Tropidonotus rufodorsatus CANTOR 1842 is the type species of the genus Oocatochus HELFENBERGER 2001. 
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