Maren’s Bronzeback Snake
Maren’s Bronzeback Snake Dendrelaphis marenae , commonly known as Maren’s Bronzeback Snake or Gaulke’s Bronzeback Tree Snake, is a slender, non-venomous, arboreal colubrid found in Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The distribution in the Philippines spans from Luzon to several provinces across Visayas and Mindanao. Within the Greater Palawan Faunal Region, it occurs on mainland Palawan and has records in several islands such as Balabac, Candaraman, Lagen, Busuanga, Calauit, and Culion, where it leads an active, diurnal, and solitary lifestyle. Maren’s Bronzeback Snake In Palawan, the Dendrelaphis marenae shares most of its habitats with its close relative in the region, the Palawan endemic Dendrelaphis levitoni . Both are forest dwellers by nature, but they favor semi-open canopies where lots of sunlight can penetrate, rather than the dark, dense interior of primary old-growth rainforests. Like th...
