''Enhydris'' is a genus of slightly venomous,

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, snakes in the family

Homalopsidae The Homalopsidae are a family of snakes which contains about 28 genus, genera and more than 50 species. They are commonly known as Indo-Australian water snakes, mudsnakes, or bockadams. They are also known as ''ular air'' (lit. "water snake") in ...

. The genus is endemic to the tropical area of Indo-Australian region.

Species

The following 6 species are recognized: * '' Enhydris chanardi''

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& Voris, 2005 * ''

Enhydris enhydris 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, Sulaw ...

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, 1799) * '' Enhydris innominata'' ( Morice, 1875) * '' Enhydris jagorii'' ( W. Peters, 1863) * '' Enhydris longicauda'' ( Bourret, 1934) * '' Enhydris subtaeniata'' (Bourret, 1934) Several additional species have traditionally been placed here, but are now often in genera such as '' Subsessor'' and '' Pseudoferania''. Another species, '' Enhydris smithi'' , was considered to be a valid species by

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M.A. Smith 1943,

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2010, and

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et al. 2014, but was considered to be a synonym of ''Enhydris jagorii'' by Cox et al. 1998, and Murphy & Voris 2014. '' Nota bene'': In the list above, a

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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Enhydris''.

Etymology

The specific names, ''jagorii'' and ''smithi'', are in honor of German naturalist

Fedor Jagor Andreas Fedor Jagor (30 November 1816 – 11 February 1900) was a German ethnologist, naturalist and explorer who traveled throughout Asia in the second half of the 19th century collecting for Berlin museums. "Fedor Jagor". German Wikipedia. Retr ...

and British herpetologist

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, respectively. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Enhydris jagorii'', p. 132; ''Enhydris smithi'', p. 247).

Species

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