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''Dendrelaphis calligastra'', also called green tree snake and northern green tree snake is a colubrid snake native to
''Dendrelaphis calligastra'' is common in Queensland's northern tropics and eastern Cape York Peninsula.
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It is a slender, large-eyed, non-venomous, diurnal snake, which grows up to 1.2 m in length and is greenish, brown, or greyish above with a cream or yellow belly.Queensland Museum (2000), p. 247.
This common snake is harmless, and readily recognised due to its cream to yellow belly and pronounced wide dark facial stripe passing across the eye.Ehmann (1992), p. 376.
Etymology
''Dendrelaphis'': 'tree Elaphe', after another genus of colubrid snakes. ''calligastra'': 'beautiful-bellied'.Habitat
Northern tree snakes are found in tropical north Queensland, from Paluma to Cooktown and easternCape York Peninsula
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. They live in a wide variety of habitats, including rainforest, urban and farmed regions, and open forest. They often bask in the leaf canopy of small bushes and trees and can escape very quickly through the canopy.
Diet
They eat frogs and reptiles.Distribution
''Dendrelaphis calligastra'' is common in Queensland's northern tropics and eastern Cape York Peninsula.
Breeding
The northern tree snake lays eggs in clutches from five to seven, with one female recorded as laying 11 eggs in January.References
Further reading
* Queensland Museum (2000). ''Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland: Cooktown to Mackay''. *Ehmann (1992). ''Encyclopedia of Australian Animals: Reptiles''. Harald Ehmann. The Australian Museum. Angus & Robertson. (Reptiles).External links
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