Photo of a Linne's Water Snake (Homalopsis buccata)
Photo: aswad andriyanto, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist

Linne's Water Snake

Homalopsis buccata

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Not documented
Type
Watersnake
Family
Homalopsidae
Genus
Homalopsis
Continents
Asia
Countries
8
How common
Common

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About

Linne's Water Snake (Homalopsis buccata) is a non-venomous water snake of the family Homalopsidae, found in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and 3 more. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 46 more. Common: recorded in 160 places on iNaturalist.

Where it lives

Native range

Habitats

Estimated from where this snake is recorded and what kind of snake it is - not a confirmed habitat survey.

Related snakes

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