Boiga cyanea

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Green Cat Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Boiga
Species: B. cyanea
Binomial name
Boiga cyanea
(Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)

Green Cat Snake Boiga cyanea is a species of nocturnal snake found in India (Sikkim, Darjeeling, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh[ (Chessa, Van Vihar - Papum Pare district, Tippi - district ?) [A. Captain, pers. comm.], Nicobar Islands), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand (incl. Phuket),Myanmar (= Burma), West Malaysia (PAUWELS et al. 2003),and parts of China (Yunnan).


[edit] References

  • Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
  • Duméril, A. M. C., Bibron, G. & Duméril, A. H. A., 1854 Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: i-xii + 781-1536
  • Frith,C.B. 1977 A survey of the snakes of Phuket island and adjacent mainland areas of peninsular Thailand. Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc. (Bangkok) 26: 263-316