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

Examples of snakes called water snakes include:

• Family Boidae
  • Green anaconda - Water boa
• Family Colubridae
  • Afronatrix
    , a monotypic genus with the sole representative, the African brown water snake, Afronatrix anoscopus
  • Hydrops (snake)
  • Hydromorphus
  • Hydrodynastes species, including:
    • Hydrodynastes gigas – false water snake or Brazilian smooth snake
  • Natrix natrix
  • Natrix tessellata
  • Nerodia species
  • Opisthotropis species
  • Ptychophis
    , a monotypic genus with the sole representative, the fanged water snake, Ptychophis flavovirgatus
  • Sinonatrix
    species, including:
    • Sinonatrix percarinatus
      – eastern water snake
  • Trimerodytes species
  • Fowlea species, including:
    • Fowlea piscator
      – Asiatic water snake or chequered keelback
  • Helicops (snake) species, including:
    • Helicops angulatus
      – brown-banded water snake
  • Liophis species, including:
    • Liophis cobellus
    • Liophis reginae
• 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

• List of marine snakes

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