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	There are several differences between the three species Dendrelaphis formosus, Dendrelaphis cyanochloris and Dendrelaphis kopsteini. As these species were frequently misidentified in the past, I want to explain the differences here. The most obvious difference is the colouration. D. kopsteini is red in the front fo the body, the other two species are blue on the skin between the scales. Dendrelaphis formosus is easy to recognize at its huge eyes. It is astonishing that the males even have larger eyes than the females (see picture). This was unknown up to now. Picture 1 Difference in eye size between the sexes of D. formosus. Upper animals ist the male. Another obvious character of D. formosus: its striped in the back part of the body. Picture 2 Dendrelaphis formosus adult Picture 3 Dendrelaphis formosus, juvenile This species is living in Southern Thailand, West-Malaysia, Singapore, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and on several small islands off Sumatra Dendrelaphis cyanochloris has much smaller eyes than D. formosus (see picture). It is not striped. Picture 4 Comparison of the eye sizes between Dendrelaphis formosus (left) and Dendrelaphis cyanochloris (right) This species is living in India, Myanmar, Thailand and West-Malaysia, as well as on Tioman. Bild 5 Living Dendrelaphis cyanochloris from West-Malaysia Bild 6 Another Dendrelaphis cyanochloris from West-Malaysia back
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