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Arrowback tree snake

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Species of snake

Arrowback tree snake
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Boiga
Species: B. gocool
Binomial name
Boiga gocool
(Gray, 1835)
Synonyms

Dipsas gokool Gray, 1835
Dipsadomorphus gokool Boulenger, 1896
Boiga gokool Gray, 1835

The arrowback tree snake (Boiga gocool) is a species of rear-fanged colubrid found in Bhutan, Bangladesh and India (Assam, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh (Chessa - Papum Pare district).

References

  • Whitaker, Romulus and Ashok Captain 2004 Snakes of India. Draco Books, 500 pp.
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
  • Gray. J. E. 1835 Illustrations of Indian Zoology, chiefly selected from the collection of Major - General Hardwicke. Vol. 2. London (1833–1834): 263 pp., 95 plates
Taxon identifiers
Boiga gokool
Dipsas gokool


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