From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Boiga melanota

Western mangrove cat snake

Boiga dendrophila melanota

Boiga melanota, the western mangrove cat snake, is one of the biggest cat snake species in Asia. It is found in Thailand, West Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia (Sumatra). It is shiny bluish black in colour, marked with 40-50 yellow stripes. The mouth and throat area are yellow, whereas the ventral part of the body is yellowish black. The eyes are greyish in colour. It is categorised as a mildly venomous snake.

Habits

An adult mangrove snake can reach a length of 2.5 m. It is active at night (nocturnal) and hunts for birds, rats and birds eggs as its main diet. Its large head and mouth enables it to swallows its prey easily. Recently reclassed from within the Dendrophila family, they share some physical traits such as similar colouring and being rear-fanged.

References

Henrik Bringsøe, 2001. Boiga melanota (Western Mangrove Cat Snake): Diet [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347082125_Boiga_melanota_Western_Mangrove_Cat_Snake_Diet]

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

venomous-snakes boiga reptiles-described-in-1896 taxa-named-by-george-albert-boulenger fauna-of-sumatra reptiles-of-the-malay-peninsula

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Boiga melanota — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report