Pseudoxenodon macrops

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Large-eyed Bamboo Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Pseudoxenodon
Species: P. macrops
Binomial name
Pseudoxenodon macrops
(Blyth, 1855)

Large-eyed Bamboo Snake Pseudoxenodon macrops is a species of snake.

Distribution:India (Darjeeling, Assam; Arunachal Pradesh (Deban - Changlang district) ), Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, West Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos [see also HR 30: 174] SW China (Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Sichuan, Guizhou ?, Gansu)

Race fukiensis: China (Fujian)

Type locality: "near Darjiling" Darjeeling, E India

Fairly variable species with brownish and almost blackish shades with short cross stripes.

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  • Blyth, Edward. 1855 Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little known [part 2]. Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 23 (3): 287-302 [1854]