Banded flying snake

Twin-barred tree snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Chrysopelea
Species: C. pelias
Binomial name
Chrysopelea pelias
(Linnaeus, 1758)[2]

The twin-barred tree snake[3] (Chrysopelea pelias) is a species of snake found in Southeast Asia. It is also called the banded flying snake. It can glide, as with all species of its genus Chrysopelea, by stretching the body into a flattened strip using its ribs. It is mostly found in moist forests and can cover a horizontal distance of about 100 metres in a glide from the top of a tree. It is an oviparous snake.

Chrysopelea pelias has an overlapping range with the paradise tree snake (Chrysopelea paradisi) in Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo and Indonesia. However, Chrysopelea pelias is not nearly as common as the paradise tree snake.[4]

Distribution

The twin-barred tree snake is found in Thailand, Malaysia (Malaya, Penang Island, Pulau Tioman, and East Malaysia), Indonesia (Bangka, Java, Mentawai Archipelago, Nako, Natuna Archipelago, Nias, Riau Archipelago, Sumatra, Borneo); Brunei Darussalam; Burma and Singapore.[2]

References

  1. Grismer, L., Auliya, M. & Chan-Ard, T. (2012) Chrysopelea pelias. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2.
  2. 1 2 Chrysopelea pelias (LINNAEUS, 1758). Reptile-database.reptarium.cz. Retrieved on 2013-01-03.
  3. Species List. Ecology Asia. Retrieved on 2013-01-03.
  4. Twin Barred Tree Snake Naturemalaysia.com

Further reading

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