Ahaetulla prasina

Tree sniffer ( Ahaetulla prasina )

The Green Whip Snake ( Ahaetulla prasina ), also known as Green Tree sniffer is a snake species occurring in South Asia. It belongs to the family of snakes. It feeds on vertebrates such as lizards, bird breeding, frogs, and other snakes.

Features

The Green whip snake is up to 1.90 m long. She has horizontal, narrow, slit-shaped pupils; a triangular face and an extremely slender body of which the head is clearly separated. The color varies from light brown to dull yellow - green and green. Along the sides she wears a thin pale line. The species has 15 dorsal scale rows, 189-241 ventral scales ( Ventralschilde ) and 141-199 split Subcaudalia. The anal shield is usually shared.

It is ovoviviparous and brings 1 to 12 live young, which are brownish in color and about 40 cm long.

Habitat

Ahaetulla prasina comes from lowland until height of 1370 m in a. Adult animals are mainly arboreal, young animals are also to be found while foraging on the ground. The type is always to be found in dense vegetation. It inhabits tropical rain forests, but also open, and secondary forests, scrubland and trees and hedges in gardens.

The poison

The snake is actually harmless and rarely attempts to bite. Their venom is weak, it consists of enzymes. If this oxidize to toxic substances release causing maximum cardiac or neurological damage. See also deception snakes.

Legal

The Green Whip Snake is listed in "Appendix D" of Regulation ( EC) No 338 /97 ( species protection regulation). Ensuring that specific requirements for import and export and trade of this species are.

System

Described are four subspecies:

• Ahaetulla prasina prasina ( Boie, 1827)
• Ahaetulla prasina preocularis (Taylor, 1922) - Philippines including Sulu Archipelago, Panay, Luzon
• Ahaetulla prasina suluensis Gaulke, 1994 - Philippines, Sulu Archipelago