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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Elaphe |
| Species: | E. quatuorlineata
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| Binomial name | |
| Elaphe quatuorlineata (Lacépède, 1789)
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Elaphe quatuorlineata (common names: four-lined snake, Bulgarian ratsnake[3]) is a member of the family Colubridae.[4] The four-lined snake is a non-venomous species and one of the largest of the European snakes.
- ^ Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic; Rastko Ajtic; Milan Vogrin; Claudia Corti; Valentin Pérez Mellado; Paulo Sá-Sousa; Marc Cheylan; Juan M. Pleguezuelos; Petros Lymberakis; Roberto Sindaco; Antonio Romano; Dušan Jelić (2009). "Elaphe quatuorlineata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T157264A5065135. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T157264A5065135.en.
- ^ Boulenger, G.A. 1894. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume II.., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, Printers.) London. xi + 382 pp. + Plates I.- XX. (Coluber quatuorlineatus, pp. 45-47.)
- ^ "Four-lined Snake (Elaphe quatuorlineata)". www.ratsnakes.com. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
- ^ Elaphe quatuorlineata at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 6 January 2016.