Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Homalopsidae > Hypsiscopus > Hypsiscopus plumbea

Hypsiscopus plumbea (Rice Paddy Snake)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

The rice paddy snake (Enhydris plumbea) is a species of mildly venomous, rear-fanged, colubrid snake endemic to South Asia.
View Wikipedia Record: Hypsiscopus plumbea

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  67 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

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Bungarus multicinctus (Many-banded Krait)[2]
Naja nigricincta woodi (Indian Cobra)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Encyclometra bungara[3]
Encyclometra microrchis[3]
Singhiatrema vietnamensis[3]
Szidatia taiwanensis <Unverified Name>[3]

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
♦ 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