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Puff-faced Water Snake or Masked Water Snake Homalopsis buccata is a species of snake found in Asia.
[edit] Description
Inter nasals smaller than praefrontals; frontal often broken up into small shields, a little broader or sometimes narrower than the supraocular; parietals short; loreal present, sometimes divided; one or two prae- and two postoculars; one to three suboculars may be present; temporals small; ten to twelve upper labials, fifth or sixth entering the eye or narrowly separated from it; two or three pair of chin-shields, inner in contact with the three anterior lower labials. Scales in 37—47 rows; ventrals 158—176; anal divided; subcaudals 70—106. Dark brown above, with narrow, pale brown, black-edged transverse bands, in young specimens yellow; head pale with a triangular or V-shaped dark marking on the snout, a A-shaped spot on the occiput, and a dark band on each side passing through the eye and extending to before the eye. Lower surface white or yellowish, with dark brown spots along each side; tail with brown spots. Length of head and body 820 mm.; tail 230 mm. Eats fish and frogs.[1]
[edit] Distribution
- Bangladesh; Myanmar, Cambodia; Thailand; Vietnam;
- Indonesia (Bangka, Belitung, Borneo, Java, Kalimantan, Riau Archipelago, Sulawesi, Sumatra);
- Laos; W Malaysia (Malaya); Singapore;
- NE India; Nepal; Pulau Bangka
- ^ Rooij, Nelly de 1915. Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Leiden.
[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
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