Puff-faced Water Snake

Homalopsis buccata

Puff-faced Water Snake or Masked Water Snake is a species of water snake found in tropical areas of South and Southeast Asia.
Homalopsis buccata Puff-faced Water Snake or Masked Water Snake
Phanom Bencha | Thailand



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Appearance

Inter nasals smaller than prefrontals; frontal often broken up into small shields, a little broader or sometimes narrower than the supraocular; parietals short; loreal present, sometimes divided; one or two pre- and two postoculars; one to three suboculars may be present; temporals small; ten to twelve upper labials, fifth or sixth entering the eye or narrowly separated from it; two or three pair of chin-shields, inner in contact with the three anterior lower labials. Scales in 37–47 rows; ventrals 158–176; anal divided; subcaudals 70–106.
Dark brown above, with narrow, pale brown, black-edged transverse bands, in young specimens yellow; head pale with a triangular or V-shaped dark marking on the snout, a A-shaped spot on the occiput, and a dark band on each side passing through the eye and extending to before the eye. Lower surface white or yellowish, with dark brown spots along each side; tail with brown spots. Length of head and body 820 mm.; tail 230 mm. Eats fish and frogs.

Distribution

*Bangladesh; Myanmar, Cambodia; Thailand; Vietnam;
⤷ Indonesia ;
⤷ Laos; W Malaysia ; Singapore;
⤷ NE India; Nepal; Pulau Bangka

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassReptilia
OrderSquamata
FamilyColubridae
GenusHomalopsis
SpeciesH. buccata
Photographed in
Thailand