Many-banded Green Snake

Description

Morphological characters of the specimen from Kim Bang resemble those in the descriptions by Smith (1943) and Pham et al. (2014): body cylindrical; head moderately distinct from neck; eye large, pupil round; rostral as broad as high, partly visible from above; internasal not in contact with loreal; prefrontal as long as half of frontal; parietals longer than wide; nasal undivided; loreal 1/1, not in contact with orbit; pre-ocular 1/1; postoculars 2/2, bodering anterior temporals; anterior temporal 1/1, posterior temporals 2/2; supralabials 7/7, fourth and fifth touching the eye, sixth largest; infralabials 6/6, first to fourth bordering chin-shields; dorsal scale rows 15–15–15, smooth; ventrals 168; cloacal scale paired; subcaudals 99, paired. Colo u ration in life. Dorsal surface green anteriorly, grey posteriorly, with whitish spots on body; belly whitish-green anteriorly, grey posteriorly (Fig. 3d).

New records of reptiles from Kim Bang Proposed Species and Habitat Conservation Area, Vietnam

Ecology

Specimen was collected at 20:30 h on a tree branch, ca. 1.6 m above the forest floor. The surrounding habitat is secondary forest of small hardwood and shrubs.

New records of reptiles from Kim Bang Proposed Species and Habitat Conservation Area, Vietnam

Distribution

In Vietnam, this species has been recorded from Lai Chau and Lao Cai Provinces in the north southwards to Quang Ngai and Lam Dong Provinces (Pham et al. 2014). Elsewhere, this species is known from China and Laos (Uetz et al. 2025).

New records of reptiles from Kim Bang Proposed Species and Habitat Conservation Area, Vietnam

Notes

Distribution in Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve, Bac Giang Province (Hecht et al. 2013 and Figueroa et al. 2016).

New records and an updated checklist of the herpetofauna from Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve, north-eastern Vietnam