Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Boiga > Boiga kraepeliniBoiga kraepelini (Kelung Cat Snake)Synonyms: Boiga multitemporalis; Boiga sinensis; Dinodon multitemporalis; Dipsadomorphus kraepelini Boiga kraepelini, commonly known as the square-headed cat snake, Kelung cat snake, or Taiwanese tree snake is a species is a species of mildly venomous colubrid snake found in East and Southeast Asia (Taiwan, China, Vietnam, and Laos). Its specific name kraepelini honours Karl Kraepelin, a German naturalist. The common name Kelung cat snake refers to its type locality, Keelung in northern Taiwan. |
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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