Golden Tree Snake

Golden Tree Snake (Chrysopelea ornata) is a snake recorded for Vietnam in the project inventory. Its supporting occurrence note is “GBIF: 220 Vietnam records”. The accepted scientific name is retained because regional snake taxonomy and species boundaries can change, while similar-looking species may require scale counts, anatomy or genetic evidence for reliable separation. This profile therefore distinguishes the recorded identity and occurrence from broader biological context instead of inventing unsupported locality, size, diet or breeding details (project species data; Reptile Database taxonomy).

Chrysopelea flying snakes are slender, day-active tree snakes that climb using keeled belly scales and can flatten the body to glide between branches. They visually hunt lizards, frogs and other small vertebrates in trees and shrubs. Members are rear-fanged and should not be handled. These are genus-level biological notes rather than documented observations from a Vietnamese locality, so exact glide distance, body size, habitat, prey and clutch figures are not inferred (general Chrysopelea account; Reptile Database).