Snakes of Phuket

All photos © Matt Wilson 2022 (Last update April 2023)

Typhlopidae (Blind snakes)

• Mueller’s’ blind snake (Argyrophis muelleri)

• Brahminy’s blind snake (Indotyphlops braminus) NO PHOTOS

Cylindrophiidae (Pipe snakes)

• Jodi’s pipe snake (Cylindrophis jodiae)

Pythonidae (Pythons)

• Reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus)

• Brongersma’s short-tailed python (Python brongersmai) 

Xenopeltidae (Sunbeam snakes) 

• Sunbeam snake (Xenopeltis unicolor)

Acrochordidae (File snakes)

• Marine file snake (Acrochordus granulatus) NO PHOTOS

Pareidae (Slug-eating snakes)

• Common slug-eating snake (Pareas carinatus) 

• Blunt-headed slug-eating snake (Aplopeltura boa) 

Homalopsidae (Water snakes)

• Keel-bellied water snake (Bitia hydroides) NO PHOTOS
• Schneider’s bockadam (Cerberus schneiderii)

• Gerard’s mud snake (Gerarda prevostiana) NO PHOTOS
• Martaban water snake (Homalopsis semizonata)

• Crab-eating mud snake (Fordonia leucobalia)

• Cantor’s mangrove snake (Cantoria violacea)

Colubridae (Colubrids)

• Yellow-spotted keelback (Fowlea flavipunctatus)

• Speckle-bellied keelback (Rhabdophis chrysargos) 

• Black-banded keelback (Rhabdophis nigrocinctus) 

• Siamese red-necked keelback (Rhabdophis siamensis)

• Triangle keelback (Xenochrophis trianguligerus) 

• Speckle-headed vine snake (Ahaetulla fasciolata) 

• Oriental vine snake (Ahaetulla prasina)

• Keel-bellied whip snake (Dryophiops rubescens)

• Green cat snake (Boiga cyanea)

• Dog-toothed cat snake (Boiga cynodon) 

• Mangrove cat snake (Boiga melanota)

• Jasper cat snake (Boiga jaspidea) NO PHOTOS FROM PHUKET
• Drapiez’s cat snake (Boiga drapiezii)

• Common wolf snake (Lycodon capucinus) 

• Malayan banded wolf snake (Lycodon subcinctus) 

• Laotian wolf snake (Lycodon laoensis)

• Malayan bridle snake (Lycodon subannulatus) 

• Ornate flying snake (Chrysopelea ornata) 

• Paradise flying snake (Chrysopelea paradisi) 

• Twin-barred flying snake (Chrysopelea pelias) 

• Striped bronzeback (Dendrelaphis caudolineatus) 

• Common bronzeback (Dendrelaphis pictus) NO PHOTOS FROM PHUKET. ABSENT?
• Elegant bronzeback (Dendrelaphis formosus) 

• Wall’s bronzeback (Dendrelaphis cyanochloris) NO PHOTOS FROM PHUKET
• Kopstein’s bronzeback (Dendrelaphis kopsteini) NO PHOTOS
• Haas’s bronzeback (Dendrelaphis haasi) 

• Brown kukri snake (Oligodon purpurascens)

• Indochinese ground snake (Gongylosoma scriptum) 

• Keeled rat snake (Ptyas carinata) 

• White-bellied rat snake (Ptyas fusca) 

• Indochinese rat snake (Ptyas korros) 

• Oriental rat snake (Ptyas mucosa) 

• Yellow-striped racer (Coelognathus flavolineatus) 

• Copperhead racer (Coelognathus radiatus)

• Red-tailed racer (Gonyosoma oxycephalum) 

• Malayan ringneck (Liopeltis tricolor) NO PHOTOS

Pseudaspididae (Mock vipers)

• Common mock viper (Psammodynastes pulverulentus) 

Elapidae (Elapids)

• Yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina) Photos by Kat

• Blue-banded sea krait (Laticauda laticaudata) NO PHOTOS
• Yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus) NO PHOTOS
• Small-spotted coral snake (Calliophis maculiceps)

• King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)

• Monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia)

• Sumatran spitting cobra (Naja sumatrana) NO PHOTOS FROM PHUKET
• Malayan krait (Bungarus candidus)

Viperidae (Vipers)

• Malayan pit viper (Calloselasma rhodostoma) ** NO PHOTOS FROM PHUKET
• Phuket pit viper (Trimeresurus phuketensis)

• Mangrove pit viper (Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus)

• Wagler’s pit viper (Tropidolaemus wagleri)

**Based on a reference from 1965 and one photograph in 2020