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Grayson may refer to:
Places Canada
* Grayson, Saskatchewan
* Rural Municipality of Grayson No. 184, Saskatchewan
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* Grayson, California
* Grayson, Georgia
** Grayson High School
* Grayson, Kentucky
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(2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Enhydris bocourti'', p. 28).
Geographic range and habitat
''S. bocourti'' is found in a wide range of stagnant fresh water habitats in Mainland Southeast Asia
Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...
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Description
A robust snake, ''S. bocourti'' can surpass in length.[
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Reproduction
''S. bocourti'' is a live bearing species,[ giving birth to, on average, 3-8 fully formed neonate snakes.
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Diet
''S. bocourti'' feeds on frogs, fishes, and crustaceans.[
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Commercial use
Bocourt's water snake is widely caught for its skin
Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.
Other cuticle, animal coverings, such as the arthropod exoskeleton, have diffe ...
and sometimes also eaten.
References
Further reading
* Boulenger GA (1896). ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III. Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. ("''Hypsirhina bocourtii'' ic, pp. 10–11).
*Chan-ard, r.Tanya; Parr, John W. K.; Nabhitabhata, Jarujin (2015). ''A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand''. New York: Oxford University Press. 352 pp. (''Enhydris bocourti'', p. 239).
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Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to:
Acronyms
* Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN
* Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code
* Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group
* Japanese Article Numb ...
(1865). "''Enumerazione sistematica degli ofidi appartenenti al gruppo Potamophilidae'' ". ''Archivio per la Zoologia, l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia'' 3 (2): 201-265. (''Hypsirhina bocourti'', new species, pp. 258–260). (in Italian).
*Murphy, John C.; Voris, Harold K. (2014). "A Checklist and Key to the Homalopsid Snakes (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes), with the Description of New Genera". ''Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences'' (8): 1-43. (''Subsessor'', new genus, p. 33; ''S. bocourti'', new combination, p. 34, Figure 50).
* Smith MA (1943). ''The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes.'' London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (''Enhydris bocourti'', new combination, pp. 388–389).
Colubrids
Monotypic snake genera
Reptiles described in 1865
Reptiles of Southeast Asia
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