White-lipped bamboo leaf green

White-lipped bamboo with green leaves is arboreal and native to southern China and Southeast Asia. Its shape characteristics can be summarized as follows: body length 60-75 cm, tail length 14-18 cm, body weight about 60 grams, relatively small size. The head is triangular, the top is green, the pupils are straight and red, the neck is prominent, the back of the body is grass green, with occasional black patterns, and there are small white dots between the two black patterns, and the center of the outermost dorsal scale is white. , starting from the intersection of the neck and forming a white vertical line, some have a red vertical line under the white vertical line, some have double white lines, plus a red line, and a few individuals are all green. The ventral surface is light yellow-green, the trailing edge of each abdominal scale is light white, and the tail end is burnt red.

The main difference between the white-lipped bamboo-leaf green snake and other species of bamboo-leaf green snake is that there is a white line between its back and abdomen, which is more obvious in males. This white line always extends to the lower side of its mouth, making it The snout looks white, hence the name.

Male snakes have a white stripe on their ventral side, while female snakes have no or inconspicuous stripes. The appearance is similar to the red tail bamboo leaf green, but the red lines on the tail of this species do not surround the entire tail, and other species do not have the white lateral lines of the red tail bamboo leaf green. This species is similar to Fujian Bamboo Leaf Green. The difference is that the nasal scales and the first upper lip scale are completely healed or have only a very short scale groove; the internasal scales are larger, clearly distinguished from other scales on the back of the head, and may be tangent to each other or occasionally. There are those who are separated by a small scale.

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