Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Ptyas > Ptyas korros

Ptyas korros (Chinese Ratsnake, Indo-Chinese Rat Snake)

Synonyms: Coluber korros; Liopeltis libertatis; Ptyas korros chinensis; Ptyas korros indicus; Zamenis korros

Wikipedia Abstract

Ptyas korros, commonly known as the Chinese ratsnake or Indo-Chinese rat snake, is a species of colubrid snake endemic to Southeast Asia.
View Wikipedia Record: Ptyas korros

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.465 lbs (6.561 kg)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Prey / Diet

Fejervarya limnocharis (Indian Rice Frog)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Hypsiscopus plumbea (Rice Paddy Snake)1
Ploceus philippinus (Baya Weaver)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Paradistomum giganticum[3]

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
♦ 2Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177
♦ 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