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Big-eyed Bamboo Snake
Pseudoxenodon macrops
Pseudoxenodon macrops, commonly known as the large-eyed bamboo snake or the big-eyed bamboo snake, is a species of mildly venomous rear-fanged snake endemic to Asia.
From the article Pseudoxenodon macrops on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
P. macrops is a fairly variable species with brownish and almost blackish shades with short crossbars.
Range & habitat
P. macrops is found in Northeast India (Darjeeling, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Sikkim), Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, West Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, SW China (Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Sichuan, Guizhou ?, Gansu). It is also found in Sylhet region of Bangladesh.
Wikipedia: “Geographic range”
Toxicity
P. macrops is a mildly venomous species. However, the potency of its venom is currently unknown.
Wikipedia: “Venom”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 28902.