Species of Thailand
Green tree snake
Gonyosoma coeruleum, Shuo Liu, Mian Hou, Ye Htet Lwin, Qiaoyan Wang & Dingqi Rao, 1854
(In Thai: งูทางมะพร้าวเขียว)
Gonyosoma prasinum (green trinket snake, green bush rat snake or green ratsnake) is a species of colubrid snake found in Asia.
Description
Rostral a little broader than deep, just visible from above; suture between the internasals a little shorter than that between the prefrontals; frontal as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals; loreal square or longer than deep; one or two preoculars; temporals 1+2 or 2+2; upper labials 9, fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye; 5 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior or a little longer. Scales in 19 rows, the 9 to 11 middle rows feebly keeled m the adult, smooth in the young. Ventrals with a lateral keel, 198 to 206; anal entire or divided; subcaudals 100–107. Uniform bright green above; upper lip and lower surface yellowish or greenish white. Total length 3 feet: tail 9 inches.
Distribution
Its habitat ranges include Bangladesh, India (Darjeeling, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Burma (also known as Myanmar), northern Thailand, west Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, China (Yunnan, Guizhou, Hainan) and Philippines.
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Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Suborder
- Serpentes
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Gonyosoma
- Species
- Gonyosoma coeruleum
Common names
- German:
- Grüne Strauchnatter
- Grüne Spitzkopfnatter
- English:
- Green tree snake
- Green mountain racer
- Green tree racer
- Green bush rat snake
- Green ratsnake
- Green trinket snake
- Thai: งูทางมะพร้าวเขียว
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