Dendrelaphis pictus

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Painted Bronzeback
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Colubridae Genus: Dendrelaphis Species: D. pictus
Binomial name
Dendrelaphis pictus (Gmelin, 1789)
Synonyms
Dendrophis pictus

Painted Bronzeback Dendrelaphis pictus is a species of snake found in Southeast Asia and India.

[edit] External links

• EMBL reptile database
• http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/DENDRELAPHIS_PICTUS.JPG

[edit] References

• Anderson, J., 1871 On some Indian reptiles. Proc. Zool. Soc., London: 149-211

• Das, I. 1999 Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. In: Ota,H. (ed) Tropical Island herpetofauna.., Elsevier, pp. 43-77

• Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789): [Description of Dendrelaphis pictus]. In: Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (13th ed.) 1, part II. Georg Emanuel Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]

• How R A. Schmitt L H. Maharadatunkamsi. 1996 Geographical variation in the genus Dendrelaphis (Serpentes: Colubridae) within the islands of south-eastern Indonesia. JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY (LONDON) 238 (2): 351- 363.

• Meise,Wilhelm & Hennig,Willi 1932 Die Schlangengattung Dendrophis. Zool. Anz. 99 (11/12): 273-297

• Stejneger, Leonhard 1933 The ophidian generic names Ahaetulla and Dendrophis. Copeia 1933 (4): 199-203