Rainbow water snake

The rainbow water snake (Enhydris enhydris) is a species of mildly venomous, rear-fanged, colubrid snake, endemic to Asia.

Rainbow water snake
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Homalopsidae
Genus:	Enhydris
Species:	E. enhydris
Binomial name
Enhydris enhydris (Schneider, 1799)
Synonyms
Hydrus enhydris Schneider, 1799 Homalopsis enhydris — Cantor, 1847 Hypsirhina enhydris — A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 Enhydris enhydris — Barbour, 1912[1]

Geographic range

E. enhydris is found in southeastern China, Indonesia (Bangka, Belitung, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Sumatra, We), Bangladesh, Cambodia, central and eastern India, Laos, Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia, Borneo, Pulau Tioman), Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore (?), Sri Lanka, Pulau Bangka, Thailand, and Vietnam.^[1]

Type locality: "Indiae orientalis"^[1]