How to pronounce elaphe?

[MartinW]

What's the proper way to pronounce Elaphe?

Martin

[lordkovacs]

i always thought it was E-Laugh-E

[reptiledude21]

e-laff-eh

[Matt]

L - laugh - Eh

[TheRedDragon]

I say El-La-Fay.

[BWSmith]

Actually for Cornsnakes and other north american ratsnakes it is pronounced Pan-ther-o-fis ;)

[Invictus]

BWSmith, I have not seen anything "official" about corn snakes being re-classified. Do you have any scientific sources on this? I'd be most interested in reading about the reasons behind the re-classification.

[BWSmith]

Let me see if I can track it down. According to the paper, all north American Elaphe have been redefined as Pantherophis. In another paper, Asian Elaphe have been redefined as Coelognathus. I have not seen the second paper, but all of the most recent studies that I have seen pre-release and post release have refered to "ratsnakes" with these 2 new genuses. Maybe i'll just shoot an email to Wolfgang Wuster. He prolly wrote it LOL

[Big Mike]

I might be wrong but...I did some reading when I heard of the new name for corn snakes. What I concluded (from the research) was that they added a new clasification of corn/rat snake rather than replace Elaphe.

[lordkovacs]

interesting...if someone hears why it was reclassified, please post. thanks...
MIKE

[dfitzsim]

I think the last e is silent so it would pronounce like elaugh

[Big Mike]

You can check on this web site http://www.cnah.org/index.asp

The Center for North American Amphibians and Reptiles

[Emily-Fisher]

El-Ah-fay

[Invictus]

Originally posted by dfitzsim
I think the last e is silent so it would pronounce like elaugh

Vowels are always pronounced in latin. There are no silent letters.

[timmer]

E-lay-phe
???