Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98

  NAME -                 Tropical rat snake

  ORDER -                SERPENTES
  FAMILY -               Colubridae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Elaphe flavirufa

  SYNONYMS - Elaphe flavirufa pardalina (Peters) and Coluber flavirufus, Cope, 1867

  REFERENCES - 2 and  1

  District                                                     Reference

  Corozal, Belize                                                      1
  Orange Walk, Belize                                                  1
  Cayo, Belize                                                         1
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Shipstern Nature Reserve                                                    1
  Government land                                                             1
  Caracol Archaeological Reserve                                              1
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15'           1
  16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15'           1
  18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15'           1
  18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45'           1
  

  References

  1  Meerman, J., 1994. Summary of Herpetofauna Distributions in Belize.
     Report to National Protected Areas Management Project.
  
  2  Lee, Julian C. 1996.  The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Yucatán
     Peninsula.  Comstock Publishing Associates. Ithaca, New York.