Rainbow mud snake (Enhydris enhydris)

Species of Thailand

Rainbow mud snake

Enhydris enhydris

Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, 1799

In Thai: งูสายรุ้ง, ngu sai rung

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.

Type locality: "Indiae orientalis"

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Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Enhydris
Species: Enhydris enhydris

Common names

German: Gestreifte Wassertrugnatter
English:
- Rainbow mud snake
- Rainbow water snake
- Striped water snake
- Smooth water snake
Thai: งูสายรุ้ง, ngu sai rung

Synonyms

Enhydris enhydris, John C. Murphy & Harold Knight Voris (2014)
Enhydris enhydris, Nguyen Van Sang et al. (2009)
Enhydris enhydris, Merel J. Cox et al. (1998)
Enhydris enhydris, Ulrich Manthey & Wolfgang Grossmann (1997)
Enhydris enhydris, Malcolm Arthur Smith (1943)
Hypsirhina enhydris enhydris, René Léon Bourret (1934)
Enhydris enhydris, Thomas Barbour (1912)
Hypsirhina enhydris var. bilineata, Volz (1904)
Hypsirhina enhydris, Giorgio Jan (1863)
Hypsirhina enhydris, Auguste Henri André Duméril & Gabriel Bibron (1854)
Homalopsis enhydris, Theodore Edward Cantor (1847)
Hypsirhina furcata, John Edward Gray (1842)
Hypsirhina bilineata, John Edward Gray (1842)
Hypsirhina aer, Johann Georg Wagler (1830)
Homalopsis aer, Heinrich Boie (1827)
Homalopsis aer, Heinrich Boie (1826)
Coluber pythonissa, François Marie Daudin (1803)
Hydrus atrocaeruleus, George Shaw (1802)
Enhydris caerulea, Pierre André Latreille in Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini & Pierre André Latreille (1801)
Hydrus enhydris, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1799)

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Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN3.1)

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