{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Elaphe flavirufa.jpg | image_caption = Yellow-red rat snake, (''Pseudelaphe flavirufa'') | taxon = Pseudelaphe | authority = Mertens & Rosenberg, 1943 | subdivision_ranks = Species }}
'''''Pseudelaphe''''' is a genus of nonvenomous snakes in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The genus is native to parts of Middle America.
==Geographic distribution== Species of the genus ''Pseudelaphe'' are found in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.<ref name=RDB/>
==Species== The genus ''Pseudelaphe'' contains two species that are recognized as being valid.<ref name=RDB>{{EMBL genus|genus=Pseudelaphe}} www.reptile-database.org.</ref> *''Pseudelaphe flavirufa'' {{small|(Cope, 1867)}} – yellow-red rat snake *''Pseudelaphe phaescens'' {{small|(Dowling, 1952)}} – Yucatán rat snake
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *{{cite journal |last1=Mertens |first1=R. |author1-link=Robert Mertens |last2=Rosenberg |first2=H. |author2-link=species:Hans Rosenberg |title=Elaphe flavirufa ''(Cope), die mexikanischer Nachnatter '' |journal=Wochenschrift für Aquarien- und Terrarienkunde |date=1943 |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=60–62}} (''Pseudelaphe'', new genus). (in German).
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Category:Pseudelaphe Category:Taxa named by Robert Mertens
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