Rear-Fanged Snakes
Thailand’s rear-fanged (opisthoglyphous) snakes — vine snakes, cat snakes, keelbacks and others with venom delivered through grooved back fangs.
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Many-Spotted Cat Snake (Boiga multomaculata) — Mildly Venomous, Strikingly Patterned
The Many-Spotted Cat Snake is one of those quiet small-to-medium snakes that lives almost everywhere in Thailand without anyone noticing.…
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Black-Headed Cat Snake (Boiga nigriceps) — Southern Thailand’s Striking Red Tree Snake
The Black-Headed Cat Snake is the strikingly coloured red-and-black tree snake of southern Thailand’s lowland forest. Boiga nigriceps stands out…
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Jagor’s Water Snake — Field Notes from Lowland Pond Surveys
This is a working notebook of our field encounters with Jagor’s Water Snake. The full species profile lives on our…
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Rhabdophis subminiatus — The Snake Whose Bite Can Kill You Days Later
This is the snake whose bite many people misjudge — including doctors, sometimes. Rhabdophis subminiatus is small, slender, and at…
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Dog-Faced Water Snake (Cerberus rynchops) — The Mangrove Bicycle Snake
The Dog-Faced Water Snake is the mangrove specialist that fishermen on the Andaman coast pull out of their nets in…
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