Siebold's water snake

Siebold's water snake
Enhydris sieboldii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Homalopsidae
Genus: Ferania
Species: F. sieboldii
Binomial name
Ferania sieboldii
(Schlegel, 1837)[1]
Synonyms

Siebold's water snake (Ferania sieboldii ) is a species of mildly venomous, rear-fanged, colubrid snake, endemic to Asia.

Etymology

Both the specific name, sieboldii, and the common name, Siebold's water snake, are in honor of
Philipp Franz von Siebold, a German botanist and physician.[3]

Geographic range

F. sieboldii is found in northcentral India, Bangladesh, and western Malaysia.

Description

This snake has a dorsal pattern of large blotches similar to those of a python, but it is distinctive in having its nostrils on the top of the snout to aid its aquatic lifestyle. It also lacks labial pits.[4]

References

  1. Schlegel H (1837). Essai sur la physionomie des serpens. Partie Générale. xxviii + 251 pp. AND Partie Descriptive. 606 + xvi pp. Amsterdam: M.H. Schonekat. (Homalopsis sieboldii, new species, pp. 349-350 + Plate XIII, Figures 4 & 5). (in French).
  2. "Ferania sieboldii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Enhydris sieboldii, p. 243).
  4. Thakur, Sanjay; Watve, Aparna (2009). "Occurrence of Enhydris sieboldii (SCHLEGEL, 1837) in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh State of India". Russian Journal of Herpetology 16 (2): 159–160.

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