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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymDipsadomorphus dendrophilus var. B. BOULENGER 1896: 70
Dipsas dendrophila (partim) — WAGLER 1828
Triglyphodon dendrophilum var. C — DUMÉRIL et al. 1854: 1086
Boiga dendrophila — COPE 1860
Dipsadomorphus dendrophilus var. melanotus — BOETTGER 1898
Dipsadomorphus dendrophilus var. B. (melanotus BLEEKER) — SCHENKEL 1901
Dipsadomorphus dendrophilus type B — LANGE & ROOIJ 1910
Boiga dendrophila melanota — BRONGERSMA 1934
Boiga dendrophila melanota — MEHRTENS 1987: 212
Boiga dendrophila melanota — COX et al. 1998: 75
Boiga dendrophila melanota — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 157
Boiga denrophila [sic] melanota — GUMPRECHT 2005
Boiga dendrophila melanota — COX et al. 2012: 110
Boiga dendrophila melanota — KRUG 2017
Boiga melanota — WEINELL et al. 2020
Boiga melanota — BRINGSØE 2020 
DistributionS Thailand, West Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)

Type locality: restricted to East coast of Sumatra by BRONGERSMA 1934.  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.4.91 
Diagnosis 
CommentHabitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
References
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