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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Blotched rat snake, Sarmatian Rat Snake, Eastern Four-lined Ratsnake
G: Östliche Vierstreifennatter
Russian: Палласов полоз 
SynonymColuber sauromates PALLAS 1811: 42 (fide BOULENGER 1894)
Coluber xanthogaster ANDRZEJOWSKI 1832: 333
Coluber cereus DWIGUBSKY 1832: 27
Coluber fulvus DWIGUBSKY 1832: 27
Elaphe parreysi FITZINGER in WAGLER 1833
Coluber thaeniothys FISCHER 1837: 145
Tropidonotus sauromates — EICHWALD 1841: 111
Elaphis Sauromates — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 288
Elaphis sauromates — GÜNTHER 1888: 170
Coluber quatuorlineatus sauromates — WERNER 1899: 376
Elaphe quatuorlineata sauromates — SCHULZ 1996: 215
Elaphe quatuorlineata sauromates — STOEV 2000
Elaphe sauromates — HELFENBERGER 2001
Elaphe sauromates — LENK et al. 2001
Elaphe sauromates — UTIGER et al. 2002
Elaphe sauromates — KWET & TRAPP 2015
Elaphe sauromates — WALLACH et al. 2014: 263
Elaphe sauromates — MEIRI et al. 2019
Elaphe sauromatus — TSELLARIUS 2021 (in error) 
DistributionTurkey, NE Greece, E Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Moldavia, S Ukraine, W Kazakhstan, S Russia (between Caspian and Black Sea)

Type locality: restricted to Isthmus near Perekop, Tauria, Ukraina by Mertens & Müller (1928)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: unlocated (Mertens & Müller 1928) 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1455 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentType species: Elaphe parreysi FITZINGER in WAGLER 1833 (= Elaphe sauromates) is the type species of the genus Elaphe FITZINGER in WAGLER 1833. Elaphe is feminine in gender.

Distribution: not in Iraq fide Habeeb & Rastegar-Pouyani 2016. Populations from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Iraq are now E. urartica. See map in Jablonski et al. 2019: 4 (Fig. 1). For maps see Sindaco et al. 2013, Bar et al. 2021, and Jablonski et al. 2023: 3 (Fig. 1A).

Synonymy mostly after HELFENBERGER 2001.

Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
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