Preface by Wolfgang Boehme/ Introduction to this book by Klaus-Dieter SCHULZ / Systematics of ratsnakes by Klaus-Dieter SCHULZ/ An annotated and illustrated checklist of Old World ratsnakes by Klaus-Dieter SCHULZ/ The Aegean populations of Elaphe quatuorlineata (LACÉPÈDE, 1789): A morpho-ecological examination by AugustoCATTANEO & Mauro GRANO / Predation on Coracias garrulus (LINNAEUS,
1758) by Elaphe quatuorlineata (LACÉPÈDE, 1789) by Mauro GRANO & Cristina CATTANEO / Natural history, morphology and ecology of the Italian Aesculapian snake, Zamenis lineatus by Massimo CAPULA & Luca LUISELLI /Episodes of predation on adult specimens of edible dormouse, Glis glis (LINNAEUS, Notes on rasnakes from north eastern India- by Abhijit Das/ Contribution to knowledge of the ratsnakes of Bhutan by
Jingme Thselthrim Wangyal/ Observations on cave racers, Orthriophis taeniurus (Cope) in Southeast Asia by Liz Price/ Distributional and natural history notes on the ratsnakes of Japan, with special emphasis on the species of Hokkaido by Tatsuhiro TOKUDA / Distribution and natural history of the ratsnakes of Taiwan: An annotated photographic review by Chung-wei You, Shin-wen Li and Anthony Lau/ Contribution to the
Knowledge of the Oriental rhino ratsnake, Rhynchophis Boulengeri Mocquard- by Sergei Ryabov, Klaus Dieter Schulz And Xing Wang/ Undercover in the rainforest canopy: The Rainbow tree snake Gonyophis margaritatus by Kleus Dieter Schulz and Andreas Gumprecht/ The Asian brown snakes of the genus Xenelaphis by Andreas GUMPRECHT & Klaus-Dieter SCHULZ / Forty years of husbandry and breeding of Old World ratsnakes - a summary by Rainer FESSER / A checklist of the extinct taxa allied to the Old World ratsnakes, with remarks on the phylogeny and radiation of Elaphe, Rhinechis and Zamenis by Notker HELFENBERGER & Klaus-Dieter SCHULZ/ Systematic index.
