Photo of a Yellow-spotted Keelback Water Snake (Fowlea flavipunctatus)
Photo: Tommy Hui, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist

Yellow-spotted Keelback Water Snake

Fowlea flavipunctatus

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Not documented
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Fowlea
Continents
Asia
Countries
10
How common
Rare

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About

Yellow-spotted Keelback Water Snake (Fowlea flavipunctatus) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos and 5 more. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 33 more. Rare: no confirmed iNaturalist sightings.

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.

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