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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: May 4th, 2025.


Taxonomy of the family Colubridae
Bibliography of the genus Archelaphe
Biodiversity of the family Colubridae








Genus
Archelaphe

Venus Rat Snake

Venus-Kletternatter

Venus-rottesnog

2007 Maculophis Burbrink & Lawson [nomen nudum] (type species: Coronella bella Stanley 1917; syn. Schulz, Böhme & Tillack 2011)
2011 Archelaphe Schulz, Böhme & Tillack [substitute name for Maculophis Burbrink & Lawson 2007] (type species: Coronella bella Stanley 1917)
Contents: 1 species, which is not endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Distribution: As for the single species.

Meristic and other data
of the world's snakes.
Compiled by
V. Wallach
Key to abbreviations


Head drawings of the
genus Archelaphe.
Compiled by
V. Wallach

Archelaphe bella

Venus Rat Snake, Elegant Rat Snake, Dice-like Trinket Snake, Bella Rat Snake

Venus-Kletternatter

Venus-rottesnog

1917 Coronella bella Stanley [1916]
Elaphe porphyracea bella Angel & Bourret 1933
Oligodon bella Ding & Zheng 1974
Wallophis bella Welch 1988
Elaphe bella Schulz, Helfenberger, Rao & Cen 2000
Maculophis bellus Burbrink & Lawson 2007
Archelaphe bella Schulz, Böhme & Tillack 2011
1921 Coluber leonardi Wall (Schulz, Helfenberger, Rao & Cen 2000)
Elaphe leonardi Bourret 1934
Maculophis bellus leonardi Luo, Gao, Liu, Xu & Luo 2010
1929 Coronella pulchra Werner (Schulz, Böhme & Tillack 2011)
1934 Elaphe leonardi chapaensis Bourret (Schulz, Helfenberger, Rao & Cen 2000)
Elaphe bella chapaensis Schulz, Helfenberger, Rao & Cen 2000
Maculophis bellus chapaensis Burbrink & Lawson 2007
Archelaphe bella chapaensis Schulz, Böhme & Tillack 2011

Other common names:
chapaensis: Chapa Rat Snake, Burmese Rat Snake
leonardi: Leonard's Rat Snake
Remarks: Distribution: China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan), India (Assam, Manipur, Nagaland), Myanmar, Vietnam.