Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Sri Lankan Pipe Snake

Cylindrophis maculatus

Description:

The Sri Lankan Pipe Snake is endemic to Sri Lanka. The Pipe snake eats insects and worms. The size of the snake is 300mm-650mm long. It has small eyes and a small tail. The color of the body can be in brick red or dark orange and with a black line on the top. It also has rosettes at least 30-35.

Habitat:

Found in lowlands and the highlands of Sri Lanka (wet lands). During the day it stays in wet/stony/woods.

Notes:

When it feel it is treaten it coil themselves and place it's tail on the top hiding there head inside their coiled body

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

3 Comments

mauna Kunzah
mauna Kunzah 3 years ago

Nice spotting!

Amarina
Amarina 3 years ago

Thank you mam!

Irandi Munasinghe
Irandi Munasinghe 3 years ago

Wow! Cool spotting.

Amarina
Spotted by
Amarina

Piliyandala, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Spotted on Nov 17, 2020
Submitted on Dec 31, 2020

Nearby Spottings

Black maize beetle Asian pigeonwings Tatobotys biannulalis Mantid
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team