African Cobras

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X	0 . 0	Indian Krait	Bungarus caeruleus
	1 . 0	Malayan (Blue) Krait	Bungarus candidus
.X	0 . 0	Banded Krait	Bungarus fasciatus
.X	0 . 0	Red-headed Krait	Bungarus flaviceps
X	0 . 0	Many-banded Krait	Bungarus multicinctus

1 . 0 Bungarus candidus - Malayan Krait, Blue Krait

BCan-001-M

JV Female #2

Haj-003-F

I picked up this male from a friend at the Columbia, SC show on 11/06/10. This is the first Krait I have kept. He is eating frozen thawed mice.

..........ID.#..........	..Around.Neck..	.....Mid-body.....	..Before.Vent..	......Ventral......	.....Subcaudal.....
BCan-001-M	16	15	15	220 ?	56 - 57

Info

Color & Pattern:

Gray-black head, blue-black and white bands alternate for the length of the body. Chevron-shaped band on the neck. Bands stop at the ventrals.

Scalation:

Ventral - 194 - 237

Sub-caudal - 40 - 50 Single

Mid-body - 15, Rarely 17

Around Neck - ? My male specimen has 16.

Anal Plate - Single

Size:

100 to 160 cm, maybe larger

Distribution:

All of Thailand, especially the Northeast, Cambodia, Laos, S. Vietnam, Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Sulawesi. Flatlands and hill country below 1200 meters

Taxonomic comment:

Some of the information on this page was copied from the publications below.
Siam-Info http://www.siam-info.de/english/snakes_bungarus.html	Venomous Snakes by Ludwig Trutnau Krieger Publishing