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Banded Vine Snake

Verified Shared Species

Photo: Carey_Knox_Southern_Scales (iNaturalist) · CC0

Ahaetulla fasciolata

Notable features include a thin, elongated body, an extremely long tail and a sharply triangular-shaped head. Adults can measure up to 0.8 m. can vary greatly to yellows, oranges, greens and browns, and may have ill-defined transverse bars on the neck and front of the body (Wikipedia, general species account). can vary greatly to yellows, oranges, greens and browns, and may have ill-defined transverse bars on the neck and anterior part of the body, or may be solid in color. (Wikipedia, general species account).

The head is usually punctuated with dark spots. A thin dark line across the eye separates the darker head from the lighter cheeks. The upper lips and underside of the head are whitish with dark spots. The scales pattern observed in specimens from Thailand were: ventral 227–238, subcaudal (187–192) + 1 paired, dorsal scales in 15 rows, 9 supralabial, with the 4th to 5th touching the eye, 1 preocular, 2 postocular. The anal scales are entire in this species. (Wikipedia, general species account).

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