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Frog-eating Rat Snake
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Frog-eating Rat Snake

Oocatochus rufodorsatus

Oocatochus is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Oocatochus rufodorsatus. It is known as the frog-eating rat snake, or red-backed rat snake.

It is found in East Asia, in eastern China, Korea, and Russia. The reptile database also mentions Taiwan, but other sources do not support this.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 30236.