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Elaphe moellendorffi (BOETTGER, 1886)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Flower Snake, Moellendorf’s rat snake
G: Moellendorffs Kletternatter / Blumennatter
Chinese: 百花锦蛇 
SynonymCynophis Moellendorffi BOETTGER 1886: 520
Coluber moellendorffi — BOULENGER 1894: 56
Elaphe moellendorffii STEJNEGER 1907
Elaphe möllendorffii — MELL 1931 [1929]
Elaphe moellendorffi — SMITH 1943: 153
Amblycephalus moellendorffii — DEUVE 1961: 30
Elaphe moellendorffi — SCHULZ 1996: 175
Orthriophis moellendorffi — UTIGER et al. 2002
Elaphe moellendorffi — ZHAO 2006
Orthriophis moellendorffi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 512
Elaphe moellendorffi — CHEN et al. 2017
Orthriophis moellendorfii — HARRINGTON et al. 2018 
DistributionChina (Guangxi, Guangdong),
N Vietnam (Hoa Binh), Laos ?

Type locality: China: Guangxi, Nanning (Boettger, 1886)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: SMF 18476 (Boettger Kat. 8056,1a) 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1210 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentDistribution: Erroneously reported from Hong Kong. Possibly in Yunnan (China) but records from there are questionable (Wang et al. 2022).

Type species: Cynophis Moellendorffi BOETTGER 1886 is the type species of the genus Orthriophis UTIGER et al. 2002, which has been synonymized (again) with Elaphe by Chen et al. 2017.

Synonymy: Kaiser et al. 2013 considered the generic name Martinekea Hoser 2012 invalid and rejected its use instead of Orthriophis.

Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed in honor of German malacologist Otto Franz von Möllendorf (1848 – 1903).d 
References
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  • Boulenger, George A. 1894. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp. - get paper here
  • Chen, X., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M., Alexander Pyron, R., Burbrink, F.T. 2017. Using phylogenomics to understand the link between biogeographic origins and regional diversification in ratsnakes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - get paper here
  • Deuve, J. 1961. Liste annotee des Serpents du Laos. Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Laos 1:5-32.
  • Gumprecht, A. 2003. Anmerkungen zu den Chinesischen Kletternattern der Gattung Elaphe (sensu lato) FITZINGER 1833. Reptilia (Münster) 8 (44): 37-41 - get paper here
  • Gumprecht, A. 2003. Orthriophis moellendorffi (BOETTGER 1886). Sauria (Suppl.) 25 (3): 603-608 - get paper here
  • Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here
  • Henderson, C.C. 1975. The captive breeding of the snake, Elaphe moellendorffi Copeia 1975 (3): 583-584. - get paper here
  • Hoser, R. 2012. A taxonomic revision of the Colubrinae genera Zamenis and Orthriophis with the creation of two new genera (Serpentes: Colubridae). Australasian J. Herpetol. 11: 59-64 - get paper here
  • Kaiser, H.; Crother, B.I.; Kelly, C.M.R.; Luiselli, L.; O’Shea, M.; Ota, H.; Passos, P.; Schleip, W.D. & Wüster, W. 2013. Best Practices: In the 21st Century, Taxonomic Decisions in Herpetology are Acceptable Only When Supported by a Body of Evidence and Published via Peer-Review. Herpetological Review 44 (1): 8-23
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