Boiga gokool

arrowback tree snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Colubridae
Genus:Boiga
Species: B. gokool
Binomial name
Boiga gokool
(Gray, 1835)
Synonyms

Dipsas gokool Gray, 1835
Dipsadomorphus gokool Boulenger, 1896

Boiga gokool (arrowback tree snake) is a species of rear-fanged colubrid found in Bhutan, Bangladesh and India (Assam, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh (Chessa - Papum Pare district).

References

  • Whitaker, Romulus and Ashok Captain 2004 Snakes of India. Draco Books, 500 pp.
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
  • Gray. J. E. 1835 Illustrations of Indian Zoology, chiefly selected from the collection of Major - General Hardwicke. Vol. 2. London (1833–1834): 263 pp., 95 plates


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