mangrove snake, gold-ringed cat snake (Boiga dendrophila) Description
English: Boiga dendrophila
Date 3 April 2009
Author Cymothoa exigua https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cymothoa_exigua
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mangrovennachtbaumnatter_(Boiga_dendrophila).JPG
Boiga dendrophila, commonly called the mangrove snake or gold-ringed cat snake, is a species of rear-fanged colubrid from southeast Asia: Indonesia (Bangka, Belitung, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, Riau Archipelago, Sumatra), Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines. It is one of the biggest cat snake species, averaging 1.8–2.4 m in length. It is considered mildy venomous.
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Boiga
Species: Boiga dendrophila (F. Boie, 1827)
Synonyms:
Dipsas dendrophila F. Boie, 1827
Triglyphodon dendrophilum — A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1854
Dipsadomorphus dendrophilus — Boulenger, 1896
