Euprepiophis mandarinus, the Mandarin Rat Snake

The Mandarin Rat Snake belongs to the taxonomical Family Colubridae and within this to the extremely large Subfamily known as Colubrinae. Formerly the mandarin ratsnake was considered part of the excessively comprehensive genus Elaphe, but its genus, Euprepiophis, very recently was resurrected due to phylogenetic research (Utiger, Urs, Notker Helfenberger, Beat Schätti, Catherine Schmidt, Markus Ruf and Vincent Ziswiler (2002) "Molecular systematics and phylogeny of Old World and New World ratsnakes, Elaphe Auct., and related genera (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae)." Russ. J. Herpetol. 9 (2): 105-124). Euprepiopis mandarinus can be loosely translated as "fair mandarin snake" (Greek euprepiophis, from euprepes = good looking, fair + ophis = snake; and Latin mandarinus = a latinized form of the word mandarin).

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