Mildly-venomous
Common Name: DOG-FACED WATER SNAKE
Odia Name: କୁକୁର-ମୁହାଁ ପାଣି ସାପ
Zoological Name: Cerberus rynchops
Family: Homalopsidae
WL(P)A – Schedule – I
Thick body dull, strongly keeled scales. Head slightly broader than neck; small eye has elliptical pupil. Nostrils and eyes set high on head. Slate-grey, brown or olive with a darker pattern of crossbars or (sometimes faint) spots all the back. A black streak passes through eye onto the neck.
Look-alikes: Nil
Mildly-venomous
Common Name: Yellow-Green Cat Snake
Odia Name: ହଳଦୀ-ସବୁଜ ଡାଳି ସାପ
Zoological Name: Boiga flaviviridis
Family: Colubridae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II
Mildly venomous. Long body & laterally flattened, smooth-scaled. Head distinctly broader than neck; tail very long. Eyes with yellow iris and black vertical elliptic pupil. Dorsum yellowish-green, with dark black bars; inter-scalar skin yellow; venter unpatterned, uniform yellow of a rich intensity; supra-labials partly yellow; a black ocular streak present
Look-alikes: Common cat snake
Mildly-venomous
Common Name: Flying snake
Odia Name: ଉଡ଼ନ୍ତା ସାପ
Zoological Name: Chrysopelea ornata
Family: Colubridae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II
Long, slender, smooth-scaled. Yellow, greenish-yellow or pale green back with black crossbars. A series of large orange or red vertebral spots or rectangles lie between alternate pairs or black cross-bars. Yellow cross-bars and spots black head.
Look-alikes: Nil
Mildly-venomous
Common Name: COMMON SMOOTH-SCALED WATER SNAKE
Odia Name: କାଉଚିଆ / ଚିକଣି ସାପ
Zoological Name: Enhydris enhydris
Family: Homalopsidae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II
Smooth scaled. Olive, brown or grey above, either with a broad stripe on back that runs from head to tail tip, or three series of indistinct dark spots (one on back, one all each side).Young have three light lines on back. They give birth to live youngs.
Look-alikes: Olive keelback snake
Mildly-venomous
Common Name: FORSTEN’S CAT SNAKE
Odia Name: ଫର୍ଷ୍ଟେନଙ୍କ ଡାଳି ସାପ
Zoological Name: Boiga forsteni
Family: Colubridae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II
Long body & laterally flattened, smooth-scaled. Head distinctly broader than neck; large eye has vertical pupil. Two main colour forms, i.e. Red & black. In each form, the body pattern varies considerably: (i) uniform reddish-brown back with dull yellow markings; (ii) greyish-brown, brown or black blotches or bands that are interspersed with white patches. Hind-body has checkered pattern of same colours. Overall coloration can be very pale to very dark. In all colour forms, top of head has a dark mid-stripe, bounded on the neck by two additional marks.
Look-alikes: Common cat snake
Mildly-venomous
Common Name: COMMON CAT SNAKE
Odia Name: ଡାଳି ସାପ
Zoological Name: Boiga trigonata
Family: Colubridae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II
Long body & laterally flattened, smooth-scaled. Head distinctly broader than neck; large eye has vertical pupil; tail very long.Light brown or tan with darkerzigzag markings which may be connected. Top of head has a distinct, pale Y shapedmark, which is sometimes black-edged. Often confused with Saw-scaled viper.
Look-alikes: Saw-scaled viper
Forsten’s cat snake
Mildly-venomous
Common Name: COMMON VINE SNAKE
Odia Name: ଲାଉଡ଼ଙ୍କିଆ
Zoological Name: Ahaetulla oxyrhyncha
Family: Colubridae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II
Long & slender body, smooth-scaled. Extremely pointed head has extended snout. Large eye with horizontal pupil. Uniform parrot-green back, often with a thin white or yellow line separating upper body scales. Underside usually light green or yellow.
Look-alikes: Nil
Mildly-venomous
Common Name: Mock viper
Odia Name: ମିଛ ବୋଡା
Zoological Name: Psammodynastes pulverulentus
Family: Colubridae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II
Cylindrical body, smooth scales. ‘Viper-like’ head broader than neck, top of head has three or four long, dark. symmetrical lines. Short snout. Large eye with a vertically elliptical pupil, at times appears round. Body color varies from yellowish, reddish, pale to dark brown or grayish-black. Underside glossy, powdered with brown, pink or gray.
Look-alikes: Himalayan pit viper
