Arrowback tree snake

The arrowback tree snake (Boiga gocool) is a species of rear-fanged colubrid found in Bhutan, Bangladesh and India (Assam, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh (Chessa - Papum Pare district).

Arrowback tree snake
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Boiga
Species:	B. gocool
Binomial name
Boiga gocool (Gray, 1835)
Synonyms
Dipsas gokool Gray, 1835 Dipsadomorphus gokool Boulenger, 1896 Boiga gokool Gray, 1835

References

• Whitaker, Romulus and Ashok Captain 2004 Snakes of India. Draco Books, 500 pp.
• Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
• Gray. J. E. 1835 Illustrations of Indian Zoology, chiefly selected from the collection of Major - General Hardwicke. Vol. 2. London (1833–1834): 263 pp., 95 plates