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Enhydris enhydris (Rainbow Water Snake, Striped Water Snake)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

The rainbow water snake, Enhydris enhydris, is a species of mildly venomous, rear-fanged, colubrid snake, endemic to Asia.
View Wikipedia Record: Enhydris enhydris

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  243 grams

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Prey / Diet

Anabas testudineus (the climbing bass)[2]
Rasbora sumatrana[2]
Trichopsis vittata (Talking gourami)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Amblonyx cinereus cinereus (Oriental Small-clawed Otter)1
Hypsiscopus plumbea (Rice Paddy Snake)1
Lutra sumatrana (Hairy-nosed Otter)1
Myrrophis chinensis (Chinese Water Snake)1

Predators

Bandicota indica (greater bandicoot rat)[2]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2The prey and predators of Homalopsine snakes, HAROLD K. VORIS and JOHN C. MURPHY, Journal of Natural History, 2002, 36, 1621–1632
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