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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: April 12th, 2025.


Taxonomy of the family Lamprophiidae
Bibliography of the genus Elapotinus
Biodiversity of the family Lamprophiidae








Genus
Elapotinus

White-collared Forest Snake

Madagascar-Weisskragennatter

Hvidkravet Skovsnog

1862 Elapotinus Jan (type species: Elapotinus picteti Jan 1862)
1999 Exallodontophis Cadle (type species: Pararhadinaea albignaci Domergue 1984; syn. Kucharzewski, Raselimanana, Wang & Glaw 2014)
Contents: 1 species, which is endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Remarks: The origin of the only known species of this genus was considered unknown for more than 150 years, until Kucharzewski, Raselimanana, Wang & Glaw (2014) showed that it was identical with the Madagascar species until then known as Pararhadinaea albignaci or, more recently, Exallodontophis albignaci.
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 Elapotinus.
Compiled by
V. Wallach

Elapotinus picteti

White-collared Forest Snake

Madagascar-Weisskragennatter

Hvidkravet Skovsnog

1862 Elapotinus picteti Jan
1984 Pararhadinaea albignaci Domergue (Kucharzewski, Raselimanana, Wang & Glaw 2014)
Exallodontophis albignaci Cadle 1999

Distribution: Madagascar.