Skip to content
South American Banded Cat-eyed Snake
Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0, via iNaturalist

Snakes

South American Banded Cat-eyed Snake

Leptodeira annulata (Linnaeus, 1758)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishSouth American Banded Cat-eyed Snake
Dutch—
SpanishCulebra ojo de gato bandada
Chinese—
Sranan Tongosneki (general name for the group)
Scientific nameLeptodeira annulata (Linnaeus, 1758)

About this species

Leptodeira annulata, also known commonly as the banded cat-eyed snake, is a species of mildly venomous, rear-fanged, snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to the New World.

Read more on Wikipedia · Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassSquamata
FamilyColubridae
GenusLeptodeira

In Suriname

141Records in Suriname
27iNaturalist observations
1716First record
2026Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Commewijne20
  • Para7
  • Sipaliwini4
  • Paramaribo1
  • Saramacca1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

Sources & credits

Spotted a mistake or know another local name? Tell us.

Related species in Suriname