Photo of a Red-Tailed Racer (Gonyosoma oxycephalum)
Photo: Felix Fleck, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist
Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Constrictor
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Gonyosoma
Continents
Asia
Countries
1
How common
Common

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About

Red-Tailed Racer (Gonyosoma oxycephalum) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Indonesia. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 10 more. Common: recorded in 312 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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