Rainbow water snake
Conservation status
Least Concern  ( IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Homalopsidae
Genus:	Enhydris
Species:	E. enhydris
Binomial name
Enhydris enhydris ( Schneider, 1799)
Synonyms
Hydrus enhydris Schneider, 1799 Homalopsis enhydris — Cantor, 1847 Hypsirhina enhydris — A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 Enhydris enhydris — Barbour, 1912 [1]

The rainbow water snake (Enhydris enhydris) is a species of mildly venomous, rear-fanged, colubrid snake, endemic to Asia.

Geographic range

E. enhydris is found in southeastern China, Indonesia ( Bangka, Belitung, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Sumatra, We), Bangladesh, Cambodia, central and eastern India, Laos, Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia, Borneo, Pulau Tioman), Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore (?), Sri Lanka, Pulau Bangka, Thailand, and Vietnam. ^[1]

Type locality: "Indiae orientalis" ^[1]

References

Further reading

• Barbour T. 1912. A Contribution to the Zoögeography of the East Indian Islands. Memoirs Mus. Comp. Zoöl., Harvard College 44 (1): 1-203 + Plates 1–8. (Enhydris enhydris, p. 122).
• Boulenger GA. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (Hypsirhina enhydris, pp. 376–377).
• Boulenger GA. 1896. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ), ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Hypsirhina enhydris, pp. 6–8).
• Cantor T. 1847. Catalogue of the Reptiles Inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal [Calcutta] 16 (2): 607–656, 897–952, 1026–1078. (Homalopsis enhydris, pp. 946–948).
• Das I. 2002. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of India. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN  0-88359-056-5. (Enhydris enhydris, p. 34).
• Das I. 2006. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Borneo. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN  0-88359-061-1. (Enhydris enhydris, p. 34).
• 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. Paris: Roret. xii + pp. 781–1536. (Hypsirhina enhydris, pp. 946–949).
• Günther ACLG. 1864. The Reptiles of British India. London: The Ray Society. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xxviii + 452 pp. + Plates I-XXVI. (Hypsirhina enhydris, pp. 281–282 + Plate XXII, Figure K).
• Smith MA. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Enhydris enhydris, pp. 383–384).
• Stuart BL, Smith J, Davey K, Din P, Platt SG. 2000. Homalopsine watersnakes. The harvest and trade from Tonle Sap, Cambodia. Traffic Bull. 18 (3): 115–124.
• Schneider JG. 1799. Historiae Amphibiorum naturalis et literariae Fasciculus Primus continens Ranas, Calamitas, Bufones, Salamandras et Hydros in genera et species descriptos notisque suis distinctos. Jena, Germany: Frommann. xiii + 264 pp. + one plate. (Hydrus enhydris, new species, pp. 245–246).

External links

• Homalopsinae.com
• Acrochordus.com--Includes Information on Enhydris also Archived 2014-10-26 at the Wayback Machine

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