Dendrelaphis
Dotted Bronze Snake ( Dendrelaphis punctulata )
The bronze snakes ( Dendrelaphis ) are a genus of diurnal, arboreal snakes. They colonize primary forests and farmland in South Asia, Indonesia and Australia. As a food are mainly amphibians and lizards. All species are oviparous.
Features
Bronze snakes are medium large, very slender snakes. The elongated head has large eyes with round pupil and is clearly distinct from the neck. In the middle of the body, they have 13 to 15 oblique rows of imbricated scales. The ventral scales have laterally keels and are notched. The Subcaudalschilde also have keels and are, as the anal shield divided.
Species
There are 41 described species:
- Dendrelaphis andamanensis
- Dendrelaphis Ashoki
- Dendrelaphis bifrenalis
- Dendrelaphis biloreatus
- Dendrelaphis calligastra
- Striped Bronze Snake ( Dendrelaphis caudolineatus )
- Dendrelaphis caudolineolatus
- Dendrelaphis chairecaeos
- Blue Bronze Snake ( Dendrelaphis cyanochloris )
- Dendrelaphis flavescens
- Elegant Bronze Snake ( Dendrelaphis formosus )
- Dendrelaphis fuliginosus
- Dendrelaphis gastrostictus
- Dendrelaphis girii
- Dendrelaphis grandoculis
- Dendrelaphis grismeri
- Dendrelaphis haasi
- Dendrelaphis hollinrakei
- Dendrelaphis humayuni
- Dendrelaphis inornatus
- Dendrelaphis kopsteini
- Dendrelaphis levitoni
- Dendrelaphis lorentzi
- Dendrelaphis luzonensis
- Dendrelaphis marenae
- Dendrelaphis modestus
- Dendrelaphis ngansonensis
- Dendrelaphis nigroserratus
- Dendrelaphis oliveri
- Dendrelaphis papuensis
- Dendrelaphis philippinensis
- Spotted Bronze Snake ( Dendrelaphis pictus)
- Dotted Bronze Snake ( Dendrelaphis punctulatus )
- Dendrelaphis Solomon
- Dendrelaphis schokari
- Bronze Banded Snake ( Dendrelaphis striatus)
- Dendrelaphis subocularis
- Dendrelaphis terrificus
- Dendrelaphis tristis
- Dendrelaphis underwoodi
- Dendrelaphis walli
Evidence
- Rudolf Malkmus and Ulrich Manthey, Amphibians & reptiles of Mount Kinabalu (North Borneo), Koeltz Scientific Books, 2002, p 239 ISBN 3-904144-83-9