''Psammodynastes pictus'', the painted mock viper or spotted mock viper, is a species of

snake Snakes are elongated, Limbless vertebrate, limbless, carnivore, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other Squamata, squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping Scale (zoology), scales. Ma ...

from Southeast Asia.

Distribution

The

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is Borneo and (erroneously) India. In Borneo this species is found in both Brunei, East Malaysia and

Kalimantan Kalimantan () is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. It constitutes 73% of the island's area. The non-Indonesian parts of Borneo are Brunei and East Malaysia. In Indonesia, "Kalimantan" refers to the whole island of Borneo. In 2019, ...

. It also occurs in the

Malay Peninsula The Malay Peninsula (Malay: ''Semenanjung Tanah Melayu'') is a peninsula in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area ...

including Singapore and in

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

, Belitung, Bangka, Simeulue, and Riau Archipelago ( Indonesia).

References

* Günther, A. 1858 Catalogue of Colubrine snakes of the British Museum. London, I - XVI, 1 - 281 Colubrids Snakes of Southeast Asia Reptiles of Brunei Reptiles of Indonesia Reptiles of Malaysia Reptiles of Singapore Fauna of Sumatra Taxa named by Albert Günther Reptiles described in 1858 Reptiles of Borneo {{Colubrids-stub