Enhydris plumbea

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Rice Paddy Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Enhydris
Species: E. plumbea
Binomial name
Enhydris plumbea
(F. Boie, 1827)

Rice Paddy Snake Enhydris plumbea is a species of snake. Distribution:

India, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia,
Indonesia (Bali, Bangka, Belitung, Java, Kalimantan/Borneo, Sulawesi, Sumatra); Laos [see also HR 30
174]; Pulau Bangka
Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia, Pulau Tioman [HR 31
114]);
SE China (Hong Kong, Hainan), Taiwan,
Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Type locality: Java

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  • Boie, F. 1827 Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien, 1. Lieferung: Ophidier. Isis van Oken, Jena, 20: 508-566.
  • Ghodke, Sameer and Harry V. Andrews 2002 Enhydris plumbea (Boie, 1827) (Serpentes: ColubridaHomalopsinae), a new record for India. Hamadryad. 26 (2):373-375 [2001]
  • Gray, J. E. 1842 Monographic Synopsis of the Water Snakes, or the Family of Hydridae. The Zoological Miscellany: 59-68.
  • Voris, Harold K.;Karns, Daryl R. 1996 Habitat utilization, movements, and activity patterns of Enhydris plumbea (Serpentes: Homalopsinae) in a rice paddy wetland in Borneo Herpetological Natural History 4 (2): 111-126