About Coelognathus radiatus (Boie, 1827)
Coelognathus radiatus (Boie, 1827), commonly called the radiated ratsnake, copperhead rat snake, or copper-headed trinket snake, is a nonvenomous species of colubrid snake. Its confirmed distribution covers Indonesia (including Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo/Kalimantan, Java, and Bali), Malaysia and Brunei (including Malaya, East Malaysia, and Borneo), Singapore Island, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand (including Phuket and Koh Phangan), Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Japan (the Ryukyu Islands), India (Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh’s Miao in Changlang district, Chessa, Chimpu, and Itanagar in Papum Pare district, per A. Captain personal communication), Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China (including Fujian, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hong Kong). The type locality for this species is Java.
