This is an arboreal, nocturnal snake that is considered abundant in this part of Peru at least. Yet somehow I had managed to see 16 Imantodes cenchoa in the area before I finally saw my first one of these. This individual was spotted by our local staff member and eagle-eyed snake-finding master, Edvin.

Here is a complete list of the herps I saw in the wild on my 2014 MT Amazon Expeditions trip.

Cliff Bernzweig found this napping beauty while the two of us were unsuccessfully searching for glass frogs.

I spotted this cute li'l snake non-photogenically draped in some roadside vegetation after I and a bunch of fellow herpers got out of our road cruising van to check out the contents of a pond. I think some of the others might have gotten good photos of it.

This little beauty was mostly obscured and moving away when we first saw it, so we gently captured it and tried to get it to pose nicely. It did not cooperate; the only two poses it provided were a short-lived awkwardly bunched ball o' snake and the fully stretched constantly roaming look. Both are pictured here.