Gold-ringed Cat Snake (dendrophila)
Boiga dendrophila
- Venom
- Venomous
- Constrictor
- Not documented
- Type
- Colubrid
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Boiga
- Continents
- Asia
- Countries
- 9
- How common
- Common
About
Gold-ringed Cat Snake (dendrophila) (Boiga dendrophila) is a venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and 4 more. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 35 more. Common: recorded in 131 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.
- Tropical Rainforest
- Tropical Moist Forest
- Tropical Lowland Forest
- Tropical Montane Forest
- Montane Rainforest
- Cloud Forest
- Tropical Dry Forest
- Tropical Seasonal Forest
- Evergreen Forest
- Mangrove Forest
- Secondary Forest
- Regenerating Forest
- Forest Edges
- Forest Clearings
- Estuaries
- Brackish Wetlands
- Mangrove Swamps
- Coastal Lagoons
- Abandoned Buildings
- Roadsides
- Borneo Rainforest
- Borneo Lowland Rainforest
- Borneo Montane Rainforest
- Borneo Cloud Forest
Related snakes
- Thackeray's cat snake Boiga thackerayi
- Wall's Cat Snake Boiga walli
- Boiga whitakeri
- Eastern Cat Snake Boiga gocool
- Indian Egg-eater Boiga westermanni
- Gold-ringed Cat Snake (melanota) Boiga melanota
- Schultz' Blunt-headed Tree Snake Boiga schultzei
- Green Cat Snake Boiga cyanea
- Many-spotted Cat Snake Boiga multomaculata
- Collared Catsnake Boiga nuchalis
- Common Cat Snake Boiga trigonata
- Barnes’s Cat Snake Boiga barnesii
Stay safe: a photo or a web page can never tell you for certain that a snake is harmless. Keep your distance, never handle a wild snake, and get medical help straight away after any bite.