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Dendrelaphis is a genus of colubrid snakes, distributed from Pakistan, India and southern China to Indonesia, Timor-Leste, the Philippines, Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. There are over forty described species. Asian species are known commonly as bronzebacks, while the Australo-Papuan species are simply called treesnakes. All are non-venomous and entirely harmless to humans.




Taxonomy


Dendrelaphis is one of five genera belonging to the vine snake subfamily Ahaetuliinae, of which Dendrelaphis is most closely related to Chrysopelea, as shown in the cladogram below:




= Species

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This list is based on the latest checklist of snakes in the world and recent revisions and descriptions published in the scientific literature.
The authors of a 2015 revision of the Australo-Papuan Dendrelaphis species recommended the synonymy of D. solomonis within D. calligaster, the elevation of D. keiensis to species status, the resurrection of D. lineolatus from within D. calligaster, and the resurrection of D. macrops and elevation of D. striolatus from within D. punctulatus. They also confined D. punctulatus to Australia and D. papuensis to the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea.

Dendrelaphis andamanensis (Anderson, 1871) – Andaman bronzeback
Dendrelaphis ashoki G. Vogel & van Rooijen, 2011 – Ashok's bronzeback tree snake
Dendrelaphis bifrenalis (Boulenger, 1890) – Boulenger's bronzeback – southern India and Sri Lanka
Dendrelaphis biloreatus (Wall, 1908) – Gore's bronzeback
Dendrelaphis binhi (S. Nguyen, V. Nguyen, Le, L. Nguyen, T. Vo, B. Vo, Che & Murphy, 2023) – Binh's bronzeback
Dendrelaphis calligaster (Günther, 1867) – northern treesnake, green treesnake, coconut treesnake
Dendrelaphis caudolineatus (Gray, 1834) – striped bronzeback, grey bronzeback
Dendrelaphis caudolineolatus (Günther, 1869) – Gunther's bronzeback tree snake
Dendrelaphis chairecacos (F. Boie, 1827)
Dendrelaphis cyanochloris (Wall, 1921) – blue bronzeback
Dendrelaphis effrenis (F. Werner, 1909) – Sinharaja tree snake
Dendrelaphis flavescens Gaulke, 1994 – Sulu bronzeback
Dendrelaphis formosus (F. Boie, 1827) – elegant bronzeback
Dendrelaphis fuliginosus (Griffin, 1909) – Philippine lamp-black tree snake
Dendrelaphis gastrostictus (Boulenger, 1894) – montane treesnake
Dendrelaphis girii G. Vogel & van Rooijen, 2011 – Giri's bronzeback
Dendrelaphis grandoculis (Boulenger, 1890) – large-eyed bronzeback, southern bronzeback
Dendrelaphis grismeri G. Vogel & van Rooijen, 2008
Dendrelaphis haasi van Rooijen & G. Vogel, 2008 – Haas's bronzeback
Dendrelaphis hollinrakei Lazell, 2002
Dendrelaphis humayuni Tiwari & Biswas, 1973 – Nicobar bronzeback, Tiwari's bronzeback
Dendrelaphis inornatus (Boulenger, 1897) – Lesser Sunda bronzeback
Dendrelaphis keiensis (Mertens, 1926) – Kei treesnake
Dendrelaphis kopsteini G. Vogel & van Rooijen, 2007 – Kopstein's bronzeback
Dendrelaphis levitoni van Rooijen & G. Vogel, 2012 – Leviton's bronzeback tree snake
Dendrelaphis lineolatus (Jacquinot & Guichenot, 1853)
Dendrelaphis lorentzii (van Lidth de Jeude, 1911) – Lorentz River treesnake
Dendrelaphis luzonensis Leviton, 1961 – Luzon bronzeback treesnake
Dendrelaphis macrops (Günther, 1877)
Dendrelaphis marenae G. Vogel & van Rooijen, 2008 – Maren's bronzeback
Dendrelaphis modestus (Boulenger, 1894) – grey bronzeback, striped bronzeback
Dendrelaphis ngansonensis (Bourret, 1935) – Nganson bronzeback
Dendrelaphis nigroserratus G. Vogel, van Rooijen & Hauser, 2012 – sawtooth-necked bronzeback
Dendrelaphis oliveri (Taylor, 1950) – Oliver's bronzeback
Dendrelaphis papuensis (Boulenger, 1895) – Papuan treesnake
Dendrelaphis philippinensis (Günther, 1879) – Philippine bronzeback treesnake
Dendrelaphis pictus (Gmelin, 1789) – painted bronzeback, common bronzeback, Indonesian bronzeback
Dendrelaphis proarchos (Wall, 1909)
Dendrelaphis punctulatus (Gray, 1827) – common treesnake, Australian treesnake, green tree snake
Dendrelaphis schokari (Kuhl, 1820) – Schokar's bronzeback
Dendrelaphis striatus (Cohn, 1905) – striped bronzeback, striated bronzeback treesnake
Dendrelaphis striolatus (W. Peters, 1867)
Dendrelaphis subocularis (Boulenger, 1888) – mountain bronzeback, Burmese bronzeback
Dendrelaphis terrificus (W. Peters, 1872) – terrific bronzeback
Dendrelaphis tristis (Daudin, 1803) – common bronzeback, Daudin's bronzeback
Dendrelaphis underwoodi van Rooijen & G. Vogel, 2008 – Underwood's bronzeback
Dendrelaphis vogeli Jiang, Guo, Ren & Li, 2020 – Vogel's bronzeback
Dendrelaphis walli G. Vogel & van Rooijen, 2011
Dendrelaphis wickrorum Danushka et al., 2020 – Wickramasinghes' bronzeback




Description


Bronzebacks range in total length (including tail) from 2 feet (0.61 m) to up to 6 feet (1.8 m). All species have a slender body with a long tail. Males are shorter in length and brighter in coloration; they also tend to be more active. Females are stouter with duller or darker colorations and are less active. Typical coloration includes red, brown, or orange on the head with bronze, brown, or olive-green running down the length of the back. The underside of the body is usually bright to pale green or yellow. They have big eyes and bright red tongues. The tail is fully prehensile.




Diet


The primary prey of Dendrelaphis species consists of lizards and frogs, but the larger species are capable of taking birds, bats, and small rodents.




References






Further reading


Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Genus Dendrelaphis, p. 87, Figure 7).
Gow GF (1983). Snakes of Australia, Completely Revised Edition. Sydney: HarperCollins Australia. 128 pp. ISBN 0-207-14437-0.
Wall F (1921). Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon. Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]: Colombo Museum. (H.R. Cottle, Government Printer). xxii + 581 pp. (Genus Dendrelaphis, pp. 220–221).




External links


Genus Dendrelaphis at The Reptile Database
Video of Dendrelaphis kopsteini in Malaysia

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