Ten most common snakes in Thailand

The ten most common snakes in Thailand are cobra, blood python, echinochloa sea snake, golden python, red-tailed bamboo leaf, golden ring snake, bamboo leaf, armour snake, lycodon ruhstrati and Belcher sea snake.

1, Thai cobra

Thai cobra, also known as Siam cobra or Indian zhina cobra, is a poisonous cobra distributed in Southeast Asia. They don't shoot toxins, but shoot toxins at the enemy.

2. Blood python

Blood python is a non-toxic species of boidae Python, mainly distributed in Southeast Asia, and there are currently three subspecies. It has been confirmed that small and medium-sized pythons are generally less than two meters. Due to different places of origin, the patterns and colors of different breeds of blood pythons are also partially different. For example, the background color produced in Borneo is mainly black, and the background color produced in Malay Peninsula is mainly reddish brown.

3.spiny sea snake

The spiny sea snake is a poisonous snake. Life and caves in the ocean are most active at night. The staple food is shrimp and tigers, and other small fish also eat it. The spiny sea snake is a poisonous snake with a total length of about 130 cm. It often moves in caves and cracks in the sea, and sea snakes are most active at night.

4.golden python

Golden Python, belonging to Chordata, boidae and boidae, is a non-toxic, albino mutant of Burmese Python and a very rare one, belonging to the national first-class protected animals. Golden pythons are golden yellow with white irregular lines, and can grow to about 7 meters in adulthood.

5.Phyllostachys pubescens

Red-tailed bamboo leaf green, that is, white-lipped bamboo leaf green, also known as bamboo leaf green, green bamboo snake and green bamboo label, belongs to poisonous snakes. White-lipped bamboo leaves have a triangular head and a thin neck, which looks like a soldering iron. The back of the body is bright green with inconspicuous black horizontal stripes; The abdomen is yellow and white; From the neck to the tail, there is a white stripe on the outermost side of the body.

6.golden ring snake

Golden ring snake, commonly known as golden belt, gold-clad iron belt, golden foot belt, flower fan handle (Hakka dialect), umbrella handle (Chaozhou dialect) or fingered citron snake, is a poisonous snake with front teeth and a famous edible snake species. The toxicity of Bungarus multicinctus is weaker than that of its close relative Bungarus multicinctus, but it is still highly toxic, and the number is more than that of Bungarus multicinctus.

7. Ganzhu

Bambusa gangensis is a kind of Gastropoda, belonging to the genus Bambusa. This species was officially discovered in 2002. Ganzhu is poisonous, with bright green body, yellow-green abdomen, dark red eyes and dark red and white stripes on both sides of the body. It can grow to 130cm. Ganges bamboo grows in the northernmost part of Myanmar, where the altitude is over 400 meters. Mainly distributed in Thailand, central Laos, China and Yunnan.

8. Armor

Armoured Agkistrodon halys, alias Phyllostachys westermani, is a small poisonous snake, belonging to Agkistrodon halys subfamily, which has high medicinal value besides food. Armored Agkistrodon, like all other Agkistrodon, can go hand in hand with water, so their settlements are mostly close to water sources, and they often live in plains, hills, low mountains or fields, under stones or in grass. Provenances are easy to obtain and breeding methods are not difficult. It is a new type of breeding for the masses to get rich.

9. lycodon ruhstrati

Lycodon ruhstrati is a reptile, belonging to the genus Crotalaria. Mainly distributed in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Chinese mainland, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian and other places, generally living in the plains or mountainous areas. The model origin of this species is Java, Indonesia.

10, Belcher sea snake

Belcher sea snake, also known as Bayonet sea snake, is a poisonous sea snake under the suborder Serpentina, and was once one of the most poisonous snakes in the world. According to the toxicity of venom per unit volume, its toxicity is 200 times that of king cobra. Bayonet sea snakes like to inhabit the shallow water around the continental shelf and islands, and are rare in the open sea where the water depth exceeds 100 meters. Although they are highly toxic, they are quite gentle in temperament and will only bite unless they are treated with strong hostility.