Photo of a Khasi Hills Trinket Snake (Gonyosoma frenatum)
Photo: ong-siau-kun, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist

Khasi Hills Trinket Snake

Gonyosoma frenatum

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Constrictor
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Gonyosoma
Continents
Asia
Countries
2
How common
Common

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About

Khasi Hills Trinket Snake (Gonyosoma frenatum) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Bhutan, India. It lives in habitats such as tropical montane forest, montane rainforest, subtropical forest, broadleaf forest and 7 more. Common: recorded in 86 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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