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)

Enhydris plumbea, also known as the Rice Paddy Snake, is a species of snake found in South Asia, including in India, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Southeast China, Thailand, and Vietnam.

[edit] References

• 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