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Brown Whip Snake
Colubridae

Brown Whip Snake

Dryophiops rubescens (Gray, 1834)

Dryophiops rubescens is an arboreal snake found in Southeast Asian forests, with shared distinct morphological traits with close related genera.

Golden Tree Snake
Colubridae

Golden Tree Snake

Chrysopelea ornata (Shaw, 1802)

Chrysopelea ornata is a gliding snake with variable color patterns found across South and Southeast Asia, that is oviparous with little-studied breeding habits.

Paradise Flying Snake
Colubridae

Paradise Flying Snake

Chrysopelea paradisi Boie, 1827

Chrysopelea paradisi is a mildly venomous colubrid gliding snake native to Southeast Asian moist forests.

Banded Flying Snake
Colubridae

Banded Flying Snake

Chrysopelea pelias (Linnaeus, 1758)

Chrysopelea pelias, the twin-barred tree snake, is an arboreal gliding colubrid snake found across Southeast Asia.

Oriental Whipsnake
Colubridae

Oriental Whipsnake

Ahaetulla prasina (Boie, 1827)

Ahaetulla prasina is a slender, mildly venomous diurnal Asian vine snake not dangerous to humans.

Long-nosed Whipsnake
Colubridae

Long-nosed Whipsnake

Ahaetulla nasuta (Lacépède, 1789)

Ahaetulla nasuta, the unique snake with horizontal pupils, is now confirmed to be restricted to Sri Lanka's wet zone.

Malayan Whipsnake
Colubridae

Malayan Whipsnake

Ahaetulla mycterizans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ahaetulla mycterizans, the Malayan green whipsnake, is a small diurnal mildly venomous whip snake found across Southeast Asia.

Malabar Vine Snake
Colubridae

Malabar Vine Snake

Ahaetulla malabarica Mallik, Srikanthan, Pal, D'Souza, Shanker & Ganesh, 2020

Ahaetulla malabarica is a slender vine snake species found in mid-elevation evergreen forests of the central southern Western Ghats.

Wall's Vine Snake
Colubridae

Wall's Vine Snake

Ahaetulla isabellina (Wall, 1910)

Ahaetulla isabellina is a slender vine snake found in southern Western Ghats evergreen forests.

Farnsworth's Vine Snake
Colubridae

Farnsworth's Vine Snake

Ahaetulla farnsworthi Mallik, Srikanthan, Pal, D'Souza, Shanker & Ganesh, 2020

Ahaetulla farnsworthi is an endemic green vine snake species found in Karnataka's Central Western Ghats mid-elevation rainforests.

Northern Western Ghats Vine Snake
Colubridae

Northern Western Ghats Vine Snake

Ahaetulla borealis Mallik, Srikanthan, Pal, D'Souza, Shanker & Ganesh, 2020

Ahaetulla borealis is a green vine snake widespread in low to mid-elevation Western Ghats forests.

Collared Reed Snake
Colubridae

Collared Reed Snake

Calamaria pavimentata Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854

Calamaria pavimentata is a small collared reed snake found across a wide range of East and Southeast Asia.

Pink-headed Reed Snake
Colubridae

Pink-headed Reed Snake

Calamaria schlegeli Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854

Calamaria schlegeli is a nonvenomous red-headed snake that engages in Batesian mimicry of venomous similar-looking species.

Schmidt's Reed Snake
Colubridae

Schmidt's Reed Snake

Calamaria schmidti Marx & Inger, 1955

Calamaria schmidti is an oviparous colubrid snake found in Borneo's Sabah, that inhabits forests at mid-elevation.

Northern Reed Snake
Colubridae

Northern Reed Snake

Calamaria septentrionalis Boulenger, 1890

Calamaria septentrionalis, the Hong Kong dwarf snake, is a colubrid snake found in China and Vietnam.

Gervais' Worm Snake
Colubridae

Gervais' Worm Snake

Calamaria gervaisii Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854

Calamaria gervaisii is an oviparous burrowing snake endemic to the Philippines.

Variable Reed Snake
Colubridae

Variable Reed Snake

Calamaria lumbricoidea Boie, 1827

Calamaria lumbricoidea, the variable reed snake, is a dwarf colubrid snake found across parts of Southeast Asia.

Cantor's Dwarf Reed Snake
Colubridae

Cantor's Dwarf Reed Snake

Pseudorabdion longiceps (Cantor, 1847)

Pseudorabdion longiceps is a colubrid snake species found across six Southeast Asian countries.

Stejneger's Bamboo Snake
Colubridae

Stejneger's Bamboo Snake

Pseudoxenodon stejnegeri Barbour, 1908

Pseudoxenodon stejnegeri is an oviparous snake that lives in mountain forests near water, foraging on amphibians.

Big-eyed Bamboo Snake
Colubridae

Big-eyed Bamboo Snake

Pseudoxenodon macrops (Blyth, 1855)

Pseudoxenodon macrops is a variable-colored oviparous snake found across much of South and East Asia.

Black-headed Collared Snake
Colubridae

Black-headed Collared Snake

Sibynophis melanocephalus (Gray, 1834)

Sibynophis melanocephalus is a nonvenomous colubrid snake found across several countries in Southeast Asia.

Collared Black-headed Snake
Colubridae

Collared Black-headed Snake

Sibynophis collaris (Gray, 1853)

Sibynophis collaris is a collared snake species with defined scale patterns, specific coloration, and a known distribution across South and East Asia.

Chinese Many-tooth Snake
Colubridae

Chinese Many-tooth Snake

Sibynophis chinensis (Günther, 1889)

Sibynophis chinensis, the Chinese many-toothed snake, is a nonvenomous colubrid found across several East and Southeast Asian regions.

Black-headed snake
Colubridae

Black-headed snake

Sibynophis subpunctatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)

Sibynophis subpunctatus is a small snake found across Bangladesh, most of India, and Sri Lanka's west coast.

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