#1764 · 🦎 reptiles

Common Tree Snake

Dendrelaphis punctulatus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The common tree snake, Dendrelaphis punctulatus , (also called green tree snake and Australian tree snake) is a slender, large-eyed, non-venomous, diurnal snake of many parts of Australia, especially in the northern and eastern coastal areas, and into Papua New Guinea.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,648iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
5,648 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1826 (200 years ago).