rufozonatum" can harbour tapeworms of the genus "Spirometra", and the consumption of raw meat from "D. rufozonatum" has led to cases of human sparganosis in Korea and Japan.The species was first described as ""Lycodon rufo-zonatus" " by Theodore Edward Cantor in an 1842 paper on the fauna of "Chusan" (Zhoushan, China) in the "Annals and Magazine of Natural History".