Boiga multomaculata

Boiga multomaculata
Many-spotted cat snake
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)
Synonyms

Dipsas multomaculata Boie, 1827
Dipsadomorphus multimaculatus Boulenger, 1896

The many-spotted cat snake, Boiga multomaculata, is a species of rear-fanged colubrid.

Description

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]

Geographic range

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.

References

  1. ^ Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Vol. III. London.
  • Boie, F. 1827 Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien, 1. Lieferung: Ophidier. Isis van Oken, Jena, 20: 508-566.
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
  • Hnízdo, J. 1998 Boiga multomaculata (Boie 1827) im Terrarium. Elaphe 6 (1): 9-12


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