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Myrrophis chinensis (Chinese Water Snake)

Synonyms: Enhydris chinensis; Hypsirhina chinensis; Hypsirhina sinensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Chinese water snake, Chinese smooth water snake, Chinese mud snake or Chinese rice paddy snake (Enhydris chinensis or Myrrophis chinensis) is a species of mildly venomous, rear-fanged snake, endemic to Asia.
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  4 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fujian Wuyishan Nature Reserve V 206754 Fujian, China  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No

Prey / Diet

Anabas testudineus (the climbing bass)[2]
Macropodus opercularis (Roundtail paradisefish)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Amblonyx cinereus cinereus (Oriental Small-clawed Otter)1
Enhydris enhydris (Rainbow Water Snake, Striped Water Snake)1
Hypsiscopus plumbea (Rice Paddy Snake)2
Lutra sumatrana (Hairy-nosed Otter)1

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2The prey and predators of Homalopsine snakes, HAROLD K. VORIS and JOHN C. MURPHY, Journal of Natural History, 2002, 36, 1621–1632
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0