Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Homalopsidae > Pseudoferania > Pseudoferania polylepis

Pseudoferania polylepis (Smooth watersnake, Macleays Water Snake)

Synonyms: Enhydris polylepis; Hypsirhina macleayi; Hypsirhina polylepis; Pseudoferania harritosi; Pseudoferania macleayi

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  196 grams
Litter Size [1]  12

Ecoregions

Prey / Diet

Megalops cyprinoides (Indo-Pacific tarpon)[2]

Predators

Chelodina kuchlingi (North Australian Snake-necked Turtle)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Camallanides cerberi <Unverified Name>[3]
Tanqua ophidis <Unverified Name>[3]

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
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