Dendrelaphis
Encyclopedia
Dendrelaphis is a genus
of colubrid
snake
s, which includes various tree snakes of Australia
, New Guinea
and Asia
. There are over twenty described species in this genus.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of colubrid
Colubrid
A colubrid is a member of the snake family Colubridae. This broad classification of snakes includes about two-thirds of all snake species on earth. The earliest species of the snake family date back to the Oligocene epoch. With 304 genera and 1,938 species, Colubridae is the largest snake family...
snake
Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
s, which includes various tree snakes of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
and Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
. There are over twenty described species in this genus.
Species
(This list is currently incomplete)- Dendrelaphis bifrenalisDendrelaphis bifrenalisBoulenger's Bronzeback, Dendrelaphis bifrenalis. is a species of snake found in Sri Lanka.-References:* Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp....
– Boulenger's Bronzeback - BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
. 1890 - Dendrelaphis calligastraDendrelaphis calligastraDendrelaphis calligastra, the Northern Tree Snake is a slender, large-eyed, non-venomous, diurnal snake snake...
– Northern Tree Snake - (Günther, 1867) - Dendrelaphis caudolineatus – Striped Bronzeback - Gray. 1834
- Dendrelaphis cyanochlorisDendrelaphis cyanochlorisWall's Bronzeback or Dendrelaphis cyanochloris is a species of snake found in Southeast Asia.-Distribution:India , Bangladesh, Myanmar, S. Thailand, West Malaysia .Type locality: Eastern Himalaya, Assam, Nicobars, Myanmar-References:* Das, I...
– Wall's Bronzeback – (Wall, 1921) - Dendrelaphis formosus
- Dendrelaphis gastrostictus BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
. 1894 - Dendrelaphis goreiDendrelaphis goreiDendrelaphis gorei is a species of tree snake. It can be found in parts of India , Myanmar, Vietnam, and China ....
– Gore's Bronzeback - Dendrelaphis grandoculisDendrelaphis grandoculisSouthern Bronzeback Dendrelaphis grandoculis is a species of snake found in the Western Ghats in India.-References:* Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.* Meise,Wilhelm & Hennig,Willi 1932...
– Southern Bronzeback BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
. 1890 - Dendrelaphis hollinrakei
- Dendrelaphis humayuniDendrelaphis humayuniTiwari's Bronzeback Dendrelaphis humayuni is a species of snake found in the Nicobar Islands of India.This is a widely distributed species found in the central and southern Nicobar but absent in the Car Nicobar. Island of Chowra appears to be its northern range boundary and Great Nicobar Island is...
– Tiwari's Bronzeback - Dendrelaphis inornatus
- Dendrelaphis kopsteini – Red-necked Bronzeback Snake
- Dendrelaphis lorentzi
- Dendrelaphis ngansonensis
- Dendrelaphis oliveri
- Dendrelaphis papuensis
- Dendrelaphis pictusDendrelaphis pictusPainted Bronzeback Dendrelaphis pictus is a species of snake found in Southeast Asia and India.-Description:In the Painted Bronzeback the maxillary teeth number from 23 to 26, the eye is as long as the distance between the nostril and eye. The rostral scale is more broad than deep, and is visible...
– Painted Bronzeback (GmelinJohann Friedrich GmelinJohann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.- Education :Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen...
, 1789) - Dendrelaphis punctulataDendrelaphis punctulataThe common tree snake Dendrelaphis punctulata is a slender, large-eyed, non-venomous, diurnal snake of many parts of Australia, especially in the northern and eastern coastal areas, and into Papua New Guinea. , This common snake is harmless, readily recognised as it is an agile snake with a very...
– Green Tree Snake - (Gray, 1827) - Dendrelaphis salomonis
- Dendrelaphis striatus
- Dendrelaphis subocularis
- Dendrelaphis tristisDendrelaphis tristisThe Bronzeback Dendrelaphis tristis is a species of tree-snake found in South Asia.-Description:It is a long slender snake with a pointed head and a bronze coloured line running down its back. Feeds on geckos and frogs. This harmless snake prefers the tree tops to life on the ground...
– Bronzeback Snake - Dendrelaphis underwoodi – Underwood's Bronzeback Snake