(not to be confused with the Asian genus Ahaetulla, which are also referred as 'vine snakes')
| Oxybelis fulgidus | |
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| A green vine snake in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Oxybelis |
| Species: | O. fulgidus
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| Binomial name | |
| Oxybelis fulgidus (Daudin, 1803)
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Oxybelis fulgidus, commonly known as the green vine snake or the flatbread snake,[2] is a species of slender, arboreal, opisthoglyphous ('rear-fanged') colubrid serpent which is endemic to Central America and northern South America.
- ^ Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ), ... Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, Printers.) xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I.- XXV. (Oxybelis fulgidus, pp. 191-192.)
- ^ Discovery [@Discovery] (5 December 2016). "This is the green vine snake, also known as the flatbread snake" (Tweet) – via Twitter.