Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Elaphe > Elaphe quadrivirgata

Elaphe quadrivirgata (Japanese Four-lined Ratsnake)

Synonyms: Coluber quadrivirgatus (heterotypic); Coluber vulneratus; Elaphis bilineatus; Leptophidium dorsale

Wikipedia Abstract

Elaphe quadrivirgata, commonly known as the Japanese four-lined ratsnake or the Japanese striped snake (Japanese: shimahebi = striped snake), is a species of non-venomous colubrid snake native to Japan.
View Wikipedia Record: Elaphe quadrivirgata

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.465 lbs (6.561 kg)
Female Maturity [1]  4 years
Male Maturity [1]  4 years
Gestation [1]  67 days
Litter Size [1]  14
Maximum Longevity [2]  17 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Azumayama Forest Forest Ecosystem Reserve IV   Fukushima, Japan  
Mount Hakusan National Park V 219319 Toyama, Japan
Mount Odaigahara and Mount Omine Biosphere Reserve 88558 Kyushu, Japan  
Shiga Highland Biosphere Reserve 32124 Honshu, Japan  
Yakushima Island Biosphere Reserve   Japan    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan No

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0