''Trimerodytes'' is a

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snake Snakes are elongated, Limbless vertebrate, limbless, carnivore, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other Squamata, squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping Scale (zoology), scales. Ma ...

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Natricinae The Natricinae are a subfamily of colubroid snakes, sometimes referred to as a family (Natricidae). The subfamily comprises 37 genera. Members include many very common snake species, such as the European grass snakes, and the North American wa ...

of the

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Colubridae Colubridae (, commonly known as colubrids , from la, coluber, 'snake') is a family of snakes. With 249 genera, it is the largest snake family. The earliest species of the family date back to the Oligocene epoch. Colubrid snakes are found on ever ...

. The genus is

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Species

The genus ''Trimerodytes'' contains 7

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Trimerodytes aequifasciatus ''Trimerodytes aequifasciatus'', the Asiatic annulate keelback or Asiatic water snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. It is found in Laos, southern China, Hong Kong. and Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), o ...

'' – Asiatic annulate keelback, Asiatic water snake *''

Trimerodytes annularis The red-bellied annulate keelback or ringed water snake (''Trimerodytes annularis'') is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. It is found in Taiwan and eastern China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a cou ...

'' – red-bellied annulate keelback, ringed water snake *''

Trimerodytes balteatus The Hainan mountain keelback (''Trimerodytes balteatus'') is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. It is found in Vietnam and China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world ...

'' – Hainan mountain keelback *''

Trimerodytes percarinatus ''Trimerodytes percarinatus'', commonly known as the eastern water snake, olive keelback, olive annulate keelback or Chinese keelback water snake, is a species of snake in the subfamily Natricinae. Taxonomy The type locality for ''T. percarinat ...

'' – eastern water snake, olive keelback, olive annulate keelback, Chinese keelback water snake *''

Trimerodytes praemaxillaris ''Trimerodytes praemaxillaris'' is a species of snake in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. It is also known commonly as Angel's mountain keelback, Angel's stream snake, and the brown stream snake. The species is endemic to South ...

'' – Angel's mountain keelback, brown stream snake *''

Trimerodytes yapingi The Jingdong water snake (''Trimerodytes yapingi'') is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. It is found in China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countri ...

'' – Jingdong water snake *''

Trimerodytes yunnanensis ''Trimerodytes yunnanensis'' is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. It is found in Thailand, the province Yunnan in China, and Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions requi ...

'' – Yunnan water snake, Yunnan annulate keelback ''

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

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