Enhydris enhydris

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Rainbow Water Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Enhydris
Species: E. enhydris
Binomial name
Enhydris enhydris
(Schneider, 1799)

Rainbow Water Snake or Striped Water Snake Enhydris enhydris is a species of snake.

Distribution:SE China,Indonesia (Bangka, Belitung, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Sumatra, We); ,Bangladesh; Cambodia; C/E India; Laos; ,Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia, Borneo, Pulau Tioman; ,Myanmar (Burma); Nepal; Pakistan; ,Singapore (?); Sri Lanka; Pulau Bangka, ,Thailand; Vietnam

Type locality: "Indiae orientalis"

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  • Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
  • Schneider, J. G. 1799 Historiae Amphibiorum narturalis Hi My name is fuadd et literariae. Fasciculus primus, continens Ranas. Calamitas, Bufones, Salamandras et Hydros. Jena, 266 S.
  • 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
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