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Dendrelaphis
Sign in to saveDendrelaphis is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Ahaetuliinae of the family Colubridae. Species of the genus Dendrelaphis are distributed from Pakistan, India and southern China to Indonesia, Timor-Leste, the Philippines, Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. There are over 50 described species. Asian species are known commonly as bronzebacks, while the Australo-Papuan species are simply called tree snakes. All are non-venomous and entirely harmless to humans.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyColubridae
The colubrid snakes of the genus Dendrelaphis are widely distributed, ranging from Pakistan in the west to the northern and eastern coast of Australia in the east and south and to southern China in the north. Dendrelaphis are slender snakes with diurnal habits. They are predominantly arboreal and feed mainly on lizards and amphibians. (Vogel and van Rooijen 2011 and references therein)
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Dendrelaphis is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Ahaetuliinae of the family Colubridae. Species of the genus Dendrelaphis are distributed from Pakistan, India and southern China to Indonesia, Timor-Leste, the Philippines, Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. There are over 50 described species. Asian species are known commonly as bronzebacks, while the Australo-Papuan species are simply called tree snakes. All are non-venomous and entirely harmless to humans.
==Taxonomy== Dendrelaphis is one of five genera belonging to the vine snake subfamily Ahaetuliinae, of which Dendrelaphis is most closely related to Chrysopelea, as shown in the cladogram below: {{clade|style=font-size:85%;line-height:85% |label1=Ahaetuliinae |1={{clade |label1=sharp-nosed snakes |1= |label2=broad-nosed snakes |2= }} }}