Ahaetulla bifrenalisDendrophis bifrenalis Dendrelaphis bifrenalis, also called Boulenger's bronzeback, Boulenger's bronze-back, and Travancore bronze-brown snake, is a colubrid snake native to Eastern Ghats of Southern India and Sri Lanka.
[4] This oviparous, diurnal and arboreal species can be found in trees, shrubs and bushes in wet and intermediate zones of lowlands to mid hills.
[1] However, there are references of finding it from Mullaitivu, Vavuniya and Trincomalee of northern dry zone of Sri Lanka.
Dendrelaphis is one of the quickest snakes to escape and hide, when exited they expose the skin underneath scales.
[1] Cylindrical, narrow, slender body is present with a dorso-ventrally flattened pear-shaped head.
There is a black broad bar at the sides of the head and run along the eye to the neck region.
Lateral corner of the anterior body has black cross strips in a diagonal angle.