60+ Snake Species I’ve Found Or Caught in Thailand

60+ Snake Species I’ve Found Or Caught in Thailand
I thought I’d write up a list of Thailand snakes I’ve caught – just to try to keep track. Here’s a list of both venomous and non-venomous snakes I’ve caught (through 4/2017).

Thailand Snakes I’ve Found: #

NEW SPECIES! I found a new Oligodon species that has not been named.

NEW SPECIES! I found another snake that I think is a new species. It is similar to a keelback but thinner, and longer. It was yellow with a white ring around the neck, about 70 cm in length around 400 meters in elevation.

Venomous Species #

• King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)
• Monocled Cobra (Naja kaouthia)
• Malayan Krait / Blue Krait (Bungarus candidus)
• Mangrove Pit Viper (Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus)
• Wagler’s Pit Viper (Tropidolaemus wagleri)
• Malayan Pit Viper (Calloselasma rhodostoma)
• Beautiful Pit Viper (Trimeresurus venustus)
• Trimeresurus fucatus
• White-lipped Pit Viper (Trimeresurus albolabris)
• Red Necked Keelback (Rhabdophis subminiatus)
• Red Headed Krait – (Bungarus flaviceps)
• Small Spotted Coral Snake (Calliophis maculiceps)
• Brown Long-glanded Coral Snake (Calliophis intestinalis)

Non-Venomous Species #

• Speckle-bellied Keelback (Rhabdophis chrysargos)
• Green Keelback (Rhabdophis nigrocinctus)
• Golden Kukri Snake (Oligodon cinereus)
• Purple Kukri Snake (Oligodon purpurascens) both normal and red phase
• Striped Kukri (Oligodon taeniatus)
• Blood Python (Python Brongersmai)
• Reticulated Python (Malayopython reticulatus)
• Triangle Keelback (Xenochrophis trianguligerus)
• Common Brown Keelback (Xenochrophis flavipunctatus)
• Checkered Keelback (Xenochrophis piscator)
• Striped Keelback (Amphiesma stolatum)
• Big-eyed Mountain Keelback (Pseudoxenodon macrops)
• Oriental Whip Snake (Ahaetulla prasina) green, yellow phases
• Malayan Whip Snake (Ahaetulla mycterizans)
• Long-nosed Whip Snake (Ahaetulla nasuta)
• Malayan Banded Wolf Snake (Lycodon subcinctus)
• Brown Whip Snake / Keel bellied Whip Snake (Dryophiops rubescens) in both brown and red phases.
• Butler’s Wolf Snake (Lycodon butleri)
• Common Wolf Snake (Lycodon capucinus)
• Dusky Wolf Snake (Lepturophis albofuscus)
• Laotian Wolf Snake (Lycodon laoensis)
• Malayan Bridle Snake (Dryocalamus subannulatus) both phases – striped and blotched
• Puff-Faced Water Snake (Homalopsis buccata)
• Red Tailed Pipe Snake (Cylindrophis ruffus ruffus)
• Sunbeam Snake (Xenopeltis unicolor)
• Common Water Snake / Yellow Bellied Water Snake (Enhydris plumbea)
• Golden Tree Snake (Chrysopelea ornata)
• Paradise Tree Snake (Chrysopelea paradisi)
• Blue Bronzeback Snake (Dendrelaphis cyanochloris)
• Striped Bronzeback Snake (Dendrelaphis caudolineatus)
• Common Bronzeback Snake (Dendrelaphis pictus)
• Banded Bronzeback (Dendrelaphis striatus)
• Copperheaded Racer | Radiated Rat Snake (Coelognathus radiata)
• Malayan Racer (Coelognathus flavolineatus)
• Red-tailed Racer (Gonyosoma oxycephalum)
• Banded Cat Snake / Mangrove Cat Snake / Black Cat Snake (Boiga dendrophila)
• Green Cat Snake (Boiga cyanea)
• Dog-toothed Cat Snake (Boiga cynodon)
• Common Mock Viper (Psammodyanstes pulverulentus)
• Ridley’s Racer (Othriophis taeniurus ridleyi)
• Indo-Chinese Rat Snake (Ptyas korros)
• White-bellied Rat Snake (Ptyas fusca)
• Oriental Rat Snake (Ptyas mucosus)
• Keeled Rat Snake (Ptyas carinatus)
• Brahminy Blind Snake (Ramphotyphlops braminus)
• Common Bridle Snake (Dryocalamus davisonii)
• Rainbow Water Snake (Enhydris enhydris)
• Orange-bellied Snake (Gongylosoma baliodeirus)

DORs (Dead on Road) #

I don’t count these, I have seen more species in addition to those above.

60+ different snake species. Well, there are 150+ more out there – so I’d better get herping.

Just to make it crystal clear for those that need it. I catch the snakes and let them go in the same place I found them – in all cases except rescues where I am removing snakes from someone’s property, and they must be relocated. I release snakes I catch almost always within 24 hours. I release the snakes back to another suitable habitat.

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We go primarily at night to herp for a couple of reasons:

1. More herps.
2. Cooler weather.