#1782 · 🦎 reptiles

Common Blunt-headed Tree Snake

Imantodes cenchoa

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Khristian Venegas Valencia · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Felipe Barrera Ocampo · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Felipe Barrera Ocampo · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Melissa SM · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © jeremdelajungle · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Leonardo M. Martínez-Campos · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Suchitepequez, Guatemala:© Josh van der Meulen · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. Orito, Putumayo, CO:© gjpinat · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Leticia, Amazonas, Kolumbien:© max_hof_mann · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Puntarenas, Puntarenas, Costa Rica:© Seig · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Imantodes cenchoa (common names: blunthead tree snake , fiddle-string snake , mapepire corde violon ) is a species of rear-fanged colubrid snake distributed in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,041iNaturalist 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.
5,041 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).