''Hypsiscopus'' is a
genus
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of snakes of the
family
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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 name comes from the Greek words ''Hypsi'', meaning high or lofty, and ''scopus'', meaning view, and refers to the location of the eyes, which are set high on the heads of these snakes.
Species
There are three recognized species:
* ''
Hypsiscopus matannensis''
(Boulenger, 1897)
* ''
Hypsiscopus plumbea''
(Boie, 1827)
* ''
Hypsiscopus murphyi''
(Bernstein ''et al.'', 2022)
References
Snake genera
Colubrids
Snakes of Asia
Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger
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