{"id":101,"date":"2020-05-18T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/?p=101"},"modified":"2020-06-07T14:34:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T14:34:31","slug":"cylinder-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/2020\/05\/18\/cylinder-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Cylinder Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_xlr\">\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102\" src=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2020\/06\/snake.jpg\" alt=\"snake\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2020\/06\/snake.jpg 960w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2020\/06\/snake-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2020\/06\/snake-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"id_5edcfa901e2f81e13334137\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">Article no-02<br \/>\nModith D. Wickramasinghe<\/p>\n<p>The Ceylonese Cylinder Snake, known scientifically as Cylindrophis maculatus or in Sinhalese as \u2018Depath Naya\u2019. It owns a special place in Sri Lankan herpetology as not only been an endemic snake but is also considered to be the first reptile documented in Sri Lanka in the year 1758.<br \/>\nThis snake is found on the Montane regions of the island at an elevation of<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0a thousand meters above mean sea level. It is most frequently observed in Kandy, Peradeniya, Pallekele, Gampola, Elahera and Nikawaretiya. It lives inside burrows though known to frequently inhabit under rocks, leaf litters and decaying logs.<br \/>\nThe head of the snake is flattened followed by a cylindrical body. This characteristic is where it derives its name from. The tail is very short. The morphological pattern consists of two large reddish brown spots enclosed on a black body. An adult would grow upto 35 centimeters in length.<br \/>\nIt is a nocturnal animal that feeds on amphibians, small fish, reptiles including other snake species. It is non-venomous preferring to constrict its prey before swallowing it whole. When threatened it will arch its body up displaying the colorful pattern of the posterior while hiding its head underneath,<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftProductMiniListHscroll\" class=\"fbCommerceProductMiniListHscroll\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftLegacyTagList\" class=\"pts fbPhotoLegacyTagList\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCallToActionButton\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoButtons\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftPhotoFundraiser\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftOwnerButtons\" class=\"mvm fbPhotosPhotoOwnerButtons stat_elem\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftOriginalStory\" class=\"_56lj\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftComputerVisionAnnotation\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCVAnnotation\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftVideoFundraiser\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftViews\" class=\"_4p3v\"><\/div>\n<form id=\"u_3_2\" class=\"fbPhotosSnowliftFeedbackForm commentable_item collapsible_comments\" action=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ajax\/ufi\/modify.php\" method=\"post\">\n<div id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftFeedback\" class=\"fbPhotosSnowliftFeedback\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article no-02 Modith D. Wickramasinghe The Ceylonese Cylinder Snake, known scientifically as Cylindrophis maculatus or in Sinhalese as \u2018Depath Naya\u2019. It owns a special place in Sri Lankan herpetology as not only been an&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/zsjp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}