Homalopsis buccata

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Puff-faced Water Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Colubridae Genus: Homalopsis Species: H. buccata
Binomial name
Homalopsis buccata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Puff-faced Water Snake or Masked Water Snake Homalopsis buccata is a species of snake. Distribution:

• Bangladesh; Myanmar (= Burma), Cambodia; Thailand; Vietnam;
• Indonesia (Bangka, Belitung, Borneo, Java, Kalimantan, Riau Archipelago, Sulawesi, Sumatra);
• Laos; W Malaysia (Malaya); Singapore;
• NE India; Nepal; Pulau Bangka

[edit] External links

• EMBL reptile database

[edit] References

• Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
• Stuart, B.L.; Smith, J.; Davey, K.; Din, P. & Platt, S.G. 2000 Homalopsine watersnakes. The harvest and trade from Tonle Sap, Cambodia. Traffic Bull. 18 (3): 115-124