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Slender-nosed Vine Snake

Ahaetulla oxyrhynca (Bell, 1825)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
India (Karnataka, Telangana, Gujarat)
Also published as
Dryinus oxyrhyncus Bell, 1825; Dryinus rostratus Schinz, 1834; Dryinus russellianus Bell, 1825; Dryophis mycterizans var. zephrogaster Wall, 1910; Dryophis passericki Schinz, 1834
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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References

  • MALLIK, A. K., SRIKANTHAN, A. N., PAL, S. P., D’SOUZA, P. M., SHANKER, K., & GANESH, S. R. (2020). Disentangling vines: a study of morphological crypsis and genetic divergence in vine snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Ahaetulla) with the description of five new species from Peninsular India. Zootaxa 4874 (1): 1-62.
  • Ganesh, S. R., Arun, V., & Deepthi, P. N. (2025). Catalogue of Indian Herpetological Specimens in the Thiruvananthapuram Natural History Museum, Kerala, India. Hamadryad 41 (1/2):
  • Majumder, R. (2022). HERPETOFAUNAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION IN AN AGRO-ECOSYSTEM IN THE GANGETIC PLAIN OF EASTERN INDIA. Zoology and Ecology 32(2): 122–132.
  • Cunha, O.R. da and Nascimento, F.P. (1983). Ofidios da Amazonia. XIX. As expécies de Oxyrhopus Wagler, com uma subespécie nova, e Pseudoboa Schneider, na Amaônia orientale e Maranhão (Ophidia: Colubridae). Boletim Do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Zool. 112: 42 Pp.
  • Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane. (2018). Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71.
  • Jigar, S., & Khare Rounak and Andhale Atmaram Vitthal. (2022). CHECKLIST OF SNAKES FOUND IN MAVAL TALUKA, PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA. CIBTech Journal of Zoology 11: 182-192.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.