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Higher TaxaColubridae, Ahaetuliinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Common Indian Bronze-back, Daudin's Bronzeback, Common Bronzeback Tree Snake, Seba's Bronzeback
G: Baum-Bronzenatter 
SynonymColuber tristis DAUDIN 1803: 430
Dipsas schokari KUHL 1820 (part.)
Leptophis mancas BELL 1825 (fide SMITH 1943)
Dendrophis maniar BOIE 1827 (fide SMITH 1943)
Dendrophis scandens BOIE 1827
Chrysopelea Boieii SMITH 1837: 144
Chrysopelea boiei SMITH 1836 (fide SMITH 1943)
Dendrophis boii CANTOR 1839
Dendrophis pictus — BOULENGER 1890 (part. fide SMITH 1943)
Dendrophis helena WERNER 1893 (fide SMITH 1943)
Dendrelaphis tristis — BOULENGER 1894: 88
Dendrolaphis tristis — LUARD 1918
Dendrelaphis tristis — WALL 1921: 221
Ahaetulla tristis — SMITH 1943: 248
Dendrelaphis tristis — MCDOWELL & JENNER 1988
Dendrelaphis tristis — DAS 1996: 56
Dendrelaphis tristis — ROOIJEN & VOGEL 2008
Dendrelaphis tristis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 221
Dendrelaphis trisis — NEPALI & SINGH 2019 (in error)
Dendrelophis tristis — SAHI & KOUL 2020 (in error)
Dendralephis tristis — MEHRA et al. 2022 (in error)
Dendrelaphis trisis — NEPALI & SINGH 2022 (in error) 
DistributionSri Lanka, India (incl. Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra (Ghoshalkhamb-near Lonavla) [A. Captain, pers. comm.], Gujarat, Punjab, Tripura, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Telangana, Odisha), Bangladesh, Pakistan (Islamabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir), Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan

Type locality: Hyderabad, Bombay, and Tranquebar, India.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: iconotype, Russell 1796, plate 31; 1801: plates 25 and 26. 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: Possibly in Bhutan (Lenz 2012). Not in Pakistan fide KHAN 2002 (pers. comm.).

Synonymy partly fide ROOIJEN & VOGEL 2008. Dendrophis chairecaeos BOIE 1827 has been revalidated by ROOIJEN & VOGEL 2009.

Behavior: diurnal

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018) 
EtymologyPossibly named after the Latin tristis (sad), in reference to the dark coloration (in preservative ?). 
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