Water snake
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Different snakes are called water snakes. "Water snake" is also sometimes used as a descriptive term for any snakes that spend a significant time in or near fresh water, such as any species belonging to the family Acrochordidae. They should not be confused with sea snakes, which live primarily or entirely in marine environments.
Examples of snakes called water snakes include:
- Family Colubridae
- Hydrodynastes species, including:
- Hydrodynastes gigas – false water snake or Brazilian smooth snake
- Natrix natrix
- Nerodia species
- Opisthotropis species
- Sinonatrix species, including:
- Sinonatrix percarinata – eastern water snake
- Xenochrophis species, including:
- Xenochrophis piscator – Asiatic water snake or chequered keelback
- Hydrodynastes species, including:
- Family Dipsadidae
- Helicops species, including:
- Helicops angulatus – brown-banded water snake
- Liophis species, including:
- Helicops species, including:
- Family Homalopsidae - all species, for example:
- Cerberus rynchops - dog-faced water snake
- Enhydris enhydris - rainbow water snake
- Enhydris plumbea - rice paddy water snake or rice paddy snake
- Homalopsis buccata - puff-faced water snake
- Family Viperidae
- Agkistrodon piscivorus - cottonmouth
See also
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