Chennai Snake Park snake, annulated sea snake, common wolf snake, common vine snake, striped keelback, checkered keelback, olive keelback, common trinket snake, spectacled cobra, banded sea krait and hook-nosed sea snake. Crocodilian species include the gharial, marsh crocodile, saltwater crocodile, Siamese crocodile, African dwarf crocodile, Nile crocodile and spectacled caiman. Other reptiles at the park include water monitor, Bengal monitor, Indian black turtle, Indian flapshell turtle, Indian star tortoise, spotted rock gecko and South Asian chamaeleon. The snakes are housed in glass-fronted enclosures and the crocodilians and the larger lizards are housed in open-air enclosures protected by parapet walls and wire mesh. The
Banded flying snake Banded flying snake The twin-barred tree snake ("Chrysopelea pelias") is a species of snake found in Southeast Asia. It is also called the banded flying snake. It can glide, as with all species of its genus "Chrysopelea", by stretching the body into a flattened strip using its ribs. It is mostly found in moist forests and can cover a horizontal distance of about 100 metres in a glide from the top of a tree. It is an oviparous snake. "Chrysopelea pelias" has an overlapping range with the paradise tree snake ("Chrysopelea paradisi") in Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo and Indonesia. However, "Chrysopelea