锦蛇属（学名：Elaphe），均是无毒蛇，主要分布于东亚。
锦蛇栖息于山区或平地、树林及草地。刚接触时有些个体攻击性很强，但很容易驯化。卵生，每年5月左右交配，夏季产卵，每次产2-13枚，约1个月孵化，温度低时，孵化期可延长至2个半月，仔蛇全长约40公分。
锦蛇主要以蛙类、小型哺乳动物、小型鸟类或鸟蛋为食，由于牠没有毒性，当牠捉到猎物时会以缠绕的方式将猎物勒住，使其窒息身亡，再慢慢地把猎物吞下。
该属蛇共有17种物种：[3]
- 赤峰锦蛇Elaphe anomalaBoulenger, 1916
- 双斑锦蛇Elaphe bimaculataSchmidt, 1925
- 坎氏锦蛇Elaphe cantorisBoulenger, 1894
- 王锦蛇Elaphe carinataGünther, 1864
- 日本锦蛇Elaphe climacophoraBoie, 1826
- 团花锦蛇Elaphe davidiSauvage, 1884
- 白条锦蛇Elaphe dionePallas, 1773
- 南峰锦蛇Elaphe hodgsoniGünther, 1860
- 百花锦蛇Elaphe moellendorffiBoettger, 1886
- 日本四线锦蛇Elaphe quadrivirgataBoie, 1826
- 四线锦蛇Elaphe quatuorlineataBonnaterre, 1790
- 东四线锦蛇Elaphe sauromatesPallas, 1811
- 棕黑锦蛇Elaphe schrenckiiStrauch, 1873
- 黑眉锦蛇Elaphe taeniuraCOPE, 1861
- 乌拉尔图锦蛇Elaphe urarticaJablonski, Kukushkin, Avci, Bunyatova, Ilgaz, Tuniyev & Jandzik, 2019
- 秦皇锦蛇Elaphe xiphodontaQi, Shi, Ma, Gao, Bu, Grismer, Li & Wang, 2021
- 若尔盖锦蛇Elaphe zoigeensisHuang, Ding, Burbrink, Yang, Huang, Ling, Chen & Zhang, 2012[4]
- ^Wright, A.H.（英语：Albert Hazen Wright） & A.A. Wright. (1957).Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Comstock. Ithaca & London.
- ^Chen, Xin; Lemmon, Alan R.; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Pyron, R. Alexander; Burbrink, Frank T. Using phylogenomics to understand the link between biogeographic origins and regional diversification in ratsnakes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2017-06,111: 206–218.doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.03.017.
- ^Reptarium.cz Reptile Database 中的Elaphe
- ^Huang, S., Ding, L., Burbrink, F.T., Yang, J., Huang, J., Ling, C., Chen, X. & Zhang, Y. 2012. A New Species of the Genus Elaphe (Squamata: Colubridae) from Zoige County, Sichuan, China. Asian Herpetological Research. 3, 38–45. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1245.2012.00038
