Beauty Rat Snake - Subspecies

Subspecies

Subspecies of this group include the:

• Chinese beauty rat snake (Orthriophis taeniurus taeniurus) - Native to China.
• Cave-dwelling rat snake (Orthriophis taeniurus ridleyi) - This snake is native to Thailand and peninsular Malaysia, and as the name implies, lives deep within caves. Its diet consists mainly of bats. They have a yellow to beige background color that darkens to a grey-black towards the tail. A white to cream mid-dorsal stripe starts about half of the way down the body and continues to the tip of tail. Both sides of the head are marked just behind the eye with a black stripe surrounded by blue.
• Mocquard's beauty rat snake (Orthriophis taeniurus mocquardi) - Native to southeastern China and northern Vietnam, as well as the island of Hainan.
• Taiwan beauty rat snake (Orthriophis taeniurus friesei) - Native to Taiwan.
• Orthriophis taeniurus grabowskyi - Native to Sumatra and the provinces of East Malaysia and Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.
• Orthriophis taeniurus schmackeri - Native to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.
• Orthriophis taeniurus yunnanensis - Native to China, India, Laos, Myanmar, eastern Thailand and Vietnam.
• Orthriophis taeniurus ssp. - Native to Burma, Thailand and Vietnam.