Aplopeltura is a genus of snakes of the family Pareidae. It contains a single species, Aplopeltura boa, the blunthead slug snake or blunt-headed slug-eating snake. It is a small, non-venomous snake. The species can be found in southern Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.
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Scientific classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Reptilia
Order
Squamata
Suborder
Serpentes
Family
Pareatidae
Genus
Aplopeltura
Species
Aplopeltura boa
Common names
German: Kurzkopf-Schneckenatter
English:
Blunt-headed tree snake
Blunthead slug snake
Thai: งูกินทากหัวโหนก, ngu gin taag hua nog
Synonyms
Aplopeltura boa, Van Stanley Bartholomew Wallach et al. (2014)
Aplopeltura boa, Merel J. Cox et al. (1998)
Aplopeltura boa, Ulrich Manthey & Wolfgang Grossmann (1997)
Aplopeltura boa, Alice Georgie Cruickshank Grandison (1978)
Haplopeltura boa, Michael Wilmer Forbes Tweedie (1950)
Haplopeltura boa, Malcolm Arthur Smith (1943)
Haplopeltura boa, Nelly de Rooij (1917)
Amblycephalus boa, George Albert Boulenger (1894)
Haplopeltura boa, Oskar Boettger (1892)
Amblycephalus boa, Albert Charles Lewis Günther (1858)
Aplopeltura boa, André Marie Constant Duméril & Gabriel Bibron (1854)