Candoia carinata, known commonly as the Pacific Ground Boa or the Pacific Keel-scaled Boa, is a species of snake

Snake

Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...

 in the Boidae family. It is found in Indonesia

Indonesia

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, New Guinea

New Guinea

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, and the Bismarck Archipelago.

This snake adopted as pets in Indonesia, and popular with name Monopohon. Pohon means tree in Indonesian language.

Candoia carinata paulsoni

Males are smaller and lighter than females.


Males: Show spurs, 90 cm - 1m, 300 to 400g heavy.


Females: No spurs, 1.2 to 1.4m, 1kilo to 1.2kilo heavy.

Have a very fast digestive system so beware with overfeeding!


Males can be 'difficult' with feeding.

The coulour is various from dark brown to orange-like-brown.


There is also the paulsoni santa isabella, most of them are coloured white.