1. Basic information

1. Chinese name: Squirrel Snake

2. Aliases: Yellow-headed Snake, Overtree Snake, Guoshulong, Shangzhulong, Guoshuban, Mountain snake, etc 

3. Latin name: Ptyas korros

4. Door: Chordate

5, Subphylum: Vertebrate Subphylum

6, Class: Reptiles

7, Order: Squamata

8, Suborder: Snake suborder

9, Family: Viperidae

10, Genus: Rat Snake

11, Distribution: Widely distributed in India, Thailand and Indonesia and other countries are more common in southern China provinces.

2. Morphological characteristics

1. Overall: The body is slightly reticulated, relatively slender, generally more than 1 meter.

2. Eyes: The eyes are large and round.

3. Color: The upper lip is gray-brown, and each dorsal scale in the middle and rear of the snake body has a black-brown vertical line in the middle, and the front and rear are connected into dark-brown vertical lines. The ventral surface is light yellow, and the back is Tan or olive gray, with dark brown scales on the rear of the trunk and dorsum of the tail.

III. Living habits

1. Habitat: The squirrel snake likes to inhabit the hills and plains, in fields, roadsides, and ditches. It is easy to see them in the bushes, paddy fields, streams, rocks on the side of streams or in the grass.

2. Activity: This snake will come out for activities day and night, especially after a shower and when the sun comes out. Usually, they will stay on the top of the bushes by the roadside and ditch, waiting for the sunlight to shine, and sometimes they will crouch on the bamboo branches at night.

3. Food: They mainly feed on tree frogs, tree frogs, lizards, and birds.

4. Hibernation: Generally, hibernation begins in November, and the hibernation period varies with the annual temperature change.

IV. Breeding method

The squirrel snake is an oviparous animal. It usually lays eggs from May to June every year. Each time it lays 1 to 9 eggs, it hatches The period is about 2 months.

V. Supplementary information

At present, the squirrel snake has been included in the 2013 Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ver3 .1 - Near Threatened (NT), and included in the China Biodiversity Red List - Vertebrate Volume, with an assessment level of Vulnerable (VU). In addition, in 2020, the Notice on Regulating the Scope of the Classification and Management of Fasting Wild Animals issued by the State Forestry and Grass Administration has banned the breeding of squirrel snakes for the purpose of eating, and only allowed to be used for non-edible purposes such as medicinal and scientific research. purpose of breeding.

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