Rainbow water snake

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Rainbow water snake
Rainbow Water Snake (Enhydris enhydris) (7845020860).jpg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Homalopsidae
Genus: Enhydris
Species:
E. enhydris
Binomial name
Enhydris enhydris
(Schneider, 1799)
Synonyms

The rainbow water snake (Enhydris enhydris) is a species of mildly venomous, rear-fanged, colubrid snake, endemic to Asia.

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Geographic range

E. enhydris is found in southeastern China, Indonesia (Bangka, Belitung, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Sumatra, We), Bangladesh, Cambodia, central and eastern India, Laos, Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia, Borneo, Pulau Tioman), Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore (?), Sri Lanka, Pulau Bangka, Thailand, and Vietnam. [1]

Type locality: "Indiae orientalis" [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

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