Slender green snake

Weight

420 gsrc for Weight

Length

up to 1.02 msrc for Length

Lifespan

Not recorded

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

grassland, shrublandsrc for Habitat

Young per litter or clutch

Not recorded

Reproduction

Eggssrc for Reproduction

Active

By day (diurnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Arborealsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classReptilia
4. orderSquamata
5. familyColubridae
6. genusPhilothamnus
7. SpeciesPhilothamnus heterolepidotus (Günther, 1863)

Synonyms Ahaetulla gracillima, Ahaetulla heterolepidota, Chlorophis gracilis, Chlorophis schubotzi

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidata

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• An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
  Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1
• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
  Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4
• SquamBase 1.0 - a dataset of squamate species traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0-dryad-v5
  Meiri, S. (2024) SquamBase - a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(4): e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812. Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76hdr7t3b

@misc{slender_green_snake_2026,
  title = {Slender green snake (Philothamnus heterolepidotus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/slender-green-snake},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}