Siebold's water snake
| Siebold's water snake | |
|---|---|
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| Enhydris sieboldii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Homalopsinae |
| Genus: | Enhydris |
| Species: | E. sieboldii |
| Binomial name | |
| Enhydris sieboldii (Schlegel, 1837)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Siebold's water snake (Enhydris 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
E. 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
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ "Ferania sieboldii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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.
Further reading
- Boulenger GA. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (Hypsirhina sieboldii, pp. 377-378).
- Boulenger GA. 1896. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ), ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Hypsirhina sieboldii, pp. 11-12).
- Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G, Duméril A[HA]. 1854. Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie. Comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux. Paris: Roret. xii + pp. 781-1536. (Trigonurus sieboldii, pp. 960-964). (in French).
- Günther A. 1864. The Reptiles of British India. London: The Ray Society. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xxvii + 452 pp. + Plates I-XXVI. (Ferania sieboldii, p. 284).
- Kumar AB, Sanders KL, George S, Murphy JC. 2012. The status of Eurostus dussumierii and Hypsirhina chinensis (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes): with comments on the origin of salt tolerance in homalopsid snakes. Systematics and Biodiversity 10 (4): 479-489. (Ferania sieboldii ).
- Smith MA. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia, Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Enhydris sieboldi, pp. 389–390).
- Wall F. 1908. Notes on a gravid female of Siebold's watersnake (Hypsirhina sieboldii ). Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 18: 920.
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