Location: southern India
Time: noon
Approx. Size:
Length: around 2 feet;
Size: extremely small, like a straw.
Diameter: less than 1 cm.
Was very fast in climbing aisle of mud bed/uphill like 90 degree accent.
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Sign up to join this communityAshok's Bronzeback (Dendrelaphis ashoki).
This is a relatively small snake (typically 70 cm in length) that feeds on lizards, frogs and small rodents.
More information can be found here or here.
It's range is Southwestern India:
You can differentiate this species from closely related D. girii based on it having a longer "postocular" black line than D. ashoki -- in D. ashoki it stops shortly caudal to the eye (e.g., see here).