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Sri Lankan herpetologist, Anslem de Silva largely studied the biology and ecology of Sri Lanka snakes, where he documented 96 species of land and sea snakes. [1] Five genera are endemic to Sri Lanka - Aspidura, Balanophis, Cercaspis, Haplocercus, and Pseudotyphlops. [2] Out of them only five of the land snakes are considered potentially deadly ...
The following is a list of colubrid snakes of South Asia, primarily covering the region covered by mainland India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, parts of Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Island chains.
Chrysopelea taprobanica, the Sri Lankan flying snake [3] [4] [5] or Indian flying snake, [2] is a species of gliding colubrid snake distributed in India and Sri Lanka. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 6 ] It can glide , as with all species of its genus Chrysopelea , by stretching the body into a flattened strip using its ribs.
Short sea snake Lapemis curtus (Shaw, 1802) Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Malay region, Indo-China; Yellow-lipped sea krait Laticauda colubrina India, East of the islands of the Sundas; Laticauda laticaudata ( Linnaeus, 1758) Hardwicke's spine-bellied seasnake Lapemis hardwickii Gray, 1834; Annulated sea snake Hydrophis cyanocinctus Persian Gulf ...
Barnes' cat snake is mainly a forest-dwelling species but may occasionally be found in human habitats. It is the smallest cat snake in Sri Lanka and grows up to a maximum of about 600 mm (24 in) in snout-vent length. Being a nocturnal and an arboreal hunter, it mainly feeds on agamid lizards and geckos. The day time is usually spent inside a ...
This snake frequently ventures into human dwellings in search of prey such as geckos. It has a somewhat aggressive disposition and boldly strikes out when disturbed or cornered. [ 3 ] This snake is known as Nidi mapila by the Sinhala speaking community of Sri Lanka.
Dendrelaphis schokari, also known as the common bronze-back [4] or Schokar's bronzeback [5] (Sinhala: තරු/මූකලන් හාල්දන්ඩා, Tharu/Mookalan Haaldanda in Sinhala [4]), is a species of non-venomous arboreal snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Sri Lanka. [3]
The Ceylonese cylinder snake (Cylindrophis maculatus) is a species of snake in the family Cylindrophiidae [2] endemic to Sri Lanka. [3] It is known from plains up to 1000m, localities include Gampola , Peradeniya , Kandy , Pallekele , and Elahera in the central hills and Nikaweratiya in the north-western part of the island.