- Cantoria violacea
Taxobox | name = Cantor's Water Snake
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Reptilia
ordo =Squamata
subordo =Serpentes
familia =Colubridae
genus = "Cantoria"
species = "C. violacea"
binomial = "Cantoria violacea"
binomial_authority = Girard, 1857"Cantoria violacea", commonly known as Cantor's Water Snake, is a species of
snake found in tropicalAsia .Description
Frontal a little longer than broad, shorter than its distance from the end o£ the snout or than the parietals; eye between four shields, a preocular, a supraocular, a postocular, and a subocular; loreal longer than deep ; one elongate anterior temporal, in contact with the postocular and the subocular; 5 upper labials ; 3 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are not longer than the posterior. Scales in 19 rows. Ventrals 266-278; anal divided; subcaudals 56-64. Blackish above, with white transverse bands, which widen towards the abdomen; these bands are very narrow in the typical form, wider in the var. "dayana", but constantly much narrower than the black interspaces ; Home white spots on the head; lower partn white, with greyish spots, the continuation of the dorsal cross bands ; these bands may form complete rings on the tail. [Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.] Total length 3 feet: tail 4 inches.
Distribution
Myanmar , southernThailand ,Indonesia (Kalimantan ,Sumatra ,Timor ),India (Andaman Islands ), westernMalaysia (Malaya), andSingapore .Notes
References
* Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
* Frith,C.B. & Boswell,J. 1978 Cantor's Water Snake, "Cantoria violaecea" Girard, a vertebrate new to the fauna of Thailand. Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc. (Bangkok) 27: 187-189
* Ghodke, Sameer and Harry V. Andrews 2002 Recent record of "Cantoria violacea" (Girard, 1857) from North and Middle Andaman Islands, India with a note on its bite. Hamadryad. 26 (2):371-373 [2001]
* Girard,C. 1858 Descriptions of some new Reptiles, collected by the US. Exploring Expedition under the command of Capt. Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Third Part. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 9: 181-182 [1857]External links
*
*http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/library/PANSP/Girard_1857_181.pdf
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
