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Oxybelis

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Oxybelis 

a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae. The body is very slender, the head narrow, the snout elongated and pointed, and the tail long and prehensile. The coloring of the upper side of the body is green, bronze, crimson, or grayish brown. There are five species, which are distributed from Arizona to Argentina. Oxybelis live predominantly on trees and shrubs and are diurnal. They feed on small vertebrates, principally lizards, which they kill with poison, but they are not dangerous to humans. The snakes reproduce by means of eggs.

The best-known species is the green whip snake (O. fulgidus), which measures to 1.5 m long. It is bright green, with two lemon yellow stripes on the underside.
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Reproductive tissue was examined in 40 museum specimens of Oxybelis aeneus from Arizona and the Mexican states of Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Oaxaca and Chiapas.
Reproduction in the Mexican vine snake Oxybelis aeneus (Serpentes: ... by Goldberg, Stephen R. / The Texas Journal of Science
Oxybelis, for example, is a neotropical genus containing four species defined by somewhat elongated snout (Peters and Orejas-Miranda, 1970) The usual supralabial number is eight, but O.
Taxonomy and geographic variation of Liophis poecilogyrus (Wied) from ... by Dixon, James R.; Markezich, Allan L. / The Texas Journal of Science
 
 
 
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