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Bengal Whipsnake

Ahaetulla anomala

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Classification

The variable colored vine snake (Ahaetulla anomala) is a species of opisthoglyphous (rear-fanged venomous) colubrid vine snake found in Bangladesh and India. It is the first reported sexually dichromatic snake from the Indian Subcontinent, and until 2017 was formerly regarded as a subspecies of the green vine snake, Ahaetulla nasuta. Taxonomy This snake was first described by Thomas Nelson Annandale (the first director of the Zoological Survey of India) in 1906.

Distribution

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