Enhydris
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Genus
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of slightly venom
Venom
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ous colubrid
Colubrid
A colubrid is a member of the snake family Colubridae. This broad classification of snakes includes about two-thirds of all snake species on earth. The earliest species of the snake family date back to the Oligocene epoch. With 304 genera and 1,938 species, Colubridae is the largest snake family...
snake
Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
s. Species
Species
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include:
- sea-leopard snake, Enhydris bocourti (JanGiorgio JanGiorgio Jan was an Italian taxonomist, zoologist, botanist, herpetologist, and writer. He is also known as Georg Jan or Georges Jan....
, 1865) - Sind River snake, Enhydris chanardi Murphy & Voris, 2005
- Chinese water snake, Enhydris chinensisEnhydris chinensisThe Chinese water snake or Chinese smooth water snake is a species of snake found in China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. It is commonly used in the production of Chinese snake oil.-References:...
(GrayJohn Edward GrayJohn Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
, 1842) - Dussumier's water snake, Enhydris dussumieriEnhydris dussumieriDussumier's Water Snake is a species of snake found in India and Bangladesh.-References:*Duméril, A. M. C., Bibron, G. & Duméril, A. H. A., 1854 Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux...
(DumérilAndré Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...
, BibronGabriel BibronGabriel Bibron was a French zoologist. He was born in Paris. Son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy and Sicily. He classified a number of reptile species with André Marie Constant...
& DumérilAuguste DumérilAuguste Henri André Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1857. His father André Marie Constant Duméril was also a zoologist...
, 1854 - rainbow water snake, Enhydris enhydrisEnhydris enhydrisThe Rainbow Water Snake, Enhydris enhydris, is a species of snake.-Distribution:SE China, Indonesia ;, Bangladesh; Cambodia; C/E India; Laos;...
(SchneiderJohann Gottlob SchneiderJohann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider was a German classicist and naturalist.-Biography:Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony...
, 1799) - Kapuas mud snake, Enhydris gyii Murphy, Voris & Auliya, 2005
- Enhydris innominata (Morice, 1875)
- Enhydris jagorii (PetersWilhelm PetersWilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...
, 1863) - Enhydris longicauda (Bourret, 1934)
- rice paddy snake, Enhydris plumbeaEnhydris plumbeaThe 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.-References:...
(F. BoieFriedrich BoieFriedrich Boie was a German scientist and brother of Heinrich Boie. He was born at Meldorf in Holstein and died at Kiel....
, 1827) - Macleay's water snake, Enhydris polylepis (Fischer, 1886)
- Siebold's water snake, Enhydris sieboldiEnhydris sieboldiSiebold's Water Snake is a species of snake found in north-central India, Bangladesh, and western Malaysia.This snake has the upper parts covered in large blotches similar to those of a python but they are distinctive in having their nostrils on the top of the snout to aid their aquatic lifestyle....
(SchlegelHermann SchlegelHermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...
, 1837)