| Many-spotted cat snake | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Boiga |
| Species: | B. multomaculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Boiga multomaculata (Boie, 1827) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Dipsas multomaculata Boie, 1827 |
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The many-spotted cat snake, Boiga multomaculata, is a species of rear-fanged colubrid.
Dorsally it is gray-brown with two alternating series of round dark brown spots and two other series of smaller spots lower on the sides. On the head it has two blackish bands which diverge posteriorly. There is a blackish streak from the eye to the corner of the mouth. Ventrally it is whitish, marbled or spotted with brown, and there is a series of brown spots along each side. Adults may attain 75 cm (29½ in.) in total length.[1]
The snake is found in a wide variety of locales, including areas of Western Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Miao - Changlang district), Southern China (incl. Hong Kong and Hainan), Indonesia (Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Borneo), Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, and Singapore.