Photo of a Drummond-Hay's Rough-sided Snake (Aspidura drummondhayi)
Photo: Sanjaya Kanishka, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist

Drummond-Hay's Rough-sided Snake

Aspidura drummondhayi

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Not documented
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Aspidura
Continents
Asia
Countries
1
How common
Rare

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About

Drummond-Hay's Rough-sided Snake (Aspidura drummondhayi) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Sri Lanka. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, evergreen forest, coastal forest and 1 more. Rare: recorded in only 2 places on iNaturalist.

Where it lives

Native range

Habitats

Estimated from where this snake is recorded and what kind of snake it is - not a confirmed habitat survey.

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