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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Gray Cat Snake, Eyed Cat Snake
G: Graue Katzennatter 
SynonymBoiga siamensis NUTAPHAND 1971: 61
Boiga ocellata KROON 1973
Boiga ocellata — COX et al. 1998: 77
Boiga ocellata — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 159
Boiga ocellata — NABHITABHATA et al. 2000
Boiga ocellata — ORLOV et al. 2003
Boiga ocellata — WHITAKER & CAPTAIN 2004
Boiga ocellata — DAVID et al. 2004
Boiga ocellata — AO et al. 2004
Boiga siamensis — COX et al. 2012: 132
Boiga siamensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 107
Boiga siamensis — WEINELL et al. 2020 
DistributionN/W Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar (= Burma), Bangladesh, Nepal, India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal, Meghalaya [Asem Bipin Meetei, pers. comm., 26 Dec 2016], Mizoram), China (Yunnan)

Type locality: Sakaerat, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand [Boiga ocellata]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesNeotype: FMNH 191997, male; was: Holotype of Boiga ocellata Kroon, 1973. 
Diagnosis 
CommentNot listed by GRANDISON 1977 or DAS 1996.

The “description” of B. siamensis by Nutaphand only contains a name in a table and a photo with the name “Boiga siamensis”. Nowhere does it state that it is a new species and there are no characters provided. There is a number (perhaps catalogue?) of 1692/351 next to the name on p. 61.

Synonymy: Boiga ocellata has been synonymized with B. siamensis by PAUWELS et al. (2005). The author name on the book is “Nootpand”, not Nutaphand, although this author is usually cited as the latter.

NCBI taxonID: 1774204 [ocellata]

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
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