Boiga facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Boiga
Boiga dendrophila, mangrove snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Colubrinae
Genus:	Boiga Fitzinger, 1826

Boiga is a large genus of mildly venomous, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes typically known as the cat-eyed snakes or just cat snakes.

Species

• Boiga andamanensis (Wall, 1909) - Andaman Cat Snake
• Boiga angulata (Peters, 1861) - Leyte Cat Snake
• Boiga barnesii (Günther, 1869)
• Boiga beddomei (Wall, 1909) - Beddome's Cat Snake
• Boiga bengkuluensis (Orlov, Kudryavtzev, Ryabov & Shumakov, 2003)
• Boiga blandingii (Hallowell, 1844) - Blandings Tree Snake
• Boiga bourreti (Tillack, Ziegler & Le Khac Quyet, 2004)
• Boiga ceylonensis (Günther, 1858) - Sri Lanka Cat Snake
• Boiga cyanea (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) - Green Cat Snake
• Boiga cynodon (Boie, 1827) - Dog-toothed Cat Snake
• Boiga dendrophila - Gold-ringed Cat Snake or Mangrove Snake
  • Boiga dendrophila annectens (Boulenger, 1896)
  • Boiga dendrophila dendrophila (Boie, 1827)
  • Boiga dendrophila divergens (Taylor, 1922)
  • Boiga dendrophila gemmicincta (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)
  • Boiga dendrophila latifasciata (Boulenger, 1896)
  • Boiga dendrophila levitoni (Gaulke, Demegillo & Vogel, 2005)
  • Boiga dendrophila melanota (Boulenger, 1896)
  • Boiga dendrophila multicincta (Boulenger, 1896)
  • Boiga dendrophila occidentalis (Brongersma, 1934)
• Boiga dightoni (Boulenger, 1894) - Pirmad Cat Snake
• Boiga drapiezii (Boie & Boie, 1827) - White-spotted Cat Snake
• Boiga forsteni (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) - Forsten's Cat Snake
• Boiga gokool (Gray, 1835) - Arrowback Tree Snake
• Boiga guangxiensis (Wen, 1998)
• Boiga irregularis (Merrem, 1802) - Brown Tree Snake
• Boiga jaspidea (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) - Jasper Cat Snake
• Boiga kraepelini (Stejneger, 1902) - Kelung Cat Snake
• Boiga multifasciata (Blyth, 1861) - Many-banded Tree Snake
• Boiga multomaculata (Boie, 1827) - Many-spotted Cat Snake
• Boiga nigriceps (Günther, 1863) - Black-headed Cat Snake
• Boiga nuchalis (Günther, 1875)
• Boiga ochracea (Günther, 1868) - Tawny Cat Snake
• Boiga philippina (Peters, 1867) - Philippine Cat Snake
• Boiga pulverulenta (Fischer, 1856) - Fischer's Cat Snake
• Boiga quincunciata (Wall, 1908)
• Boiga saengsomi (Nutafand, 1985) - Banded Cat Snake
• Boiga schultzei (Taylor, 1923)
• Boiga siamensis (Nootpand, 1971) - Gray Cat Snake
• Boiga tanahjampeana (Orlov & Ryabov, 2002)
• Boiga trigonata - Indian Gamma Snake
  • Boiga trigonata trigonata (Schneider, 1802)
  • Boiga trigonata melanocephala (Annandale, 1904)
• Boiga wallachi (Das, 1998) - Nicobar Cat Snake
• Boiga ranawanei (Samarawickrama, Samarawickrama, Wijesena & Orlov, 2006 (2005)) - Ranawana's Golden Cat Snake

Boiga at The Reptile Database

Images for kids

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  Mangrove snake at the United States National Zoological Park.

See also

In Spanish: Boiga para niños