 黑斑水蛇
English name: Mangrove Water Snake
Family Name: Yellow snake jaw Division (Colubridae)
Distribution: China Fujian, Hainan and Hong Kong and the island of Java in Indonesia and other places, Hainan and Fujian are rare in Hong Kong in larger quantities.
Habits: Living in coastal estuaries or semi-alkaline in the alkaline zone. M. Smith (1943) reported specimens of Haikou 3 Department of fishermen fishing in the Qiongzhou Strait captured within the network. Department of Biology, Fujian Normal University (1974) reported specimens of Fujian Minhou Zhaoan and habitat in the rice fields, pool, ditch, etc.. SJ Karsen et al (1986) reported that Deep Water Bay in Hong Kong or around mangrove intertidal wetlands considerable, daytime, night is also reflected in its activities and may, like other species of this genus, to fish for food, ovoviviparous.
Characteristics: Length up to 65 cm. The back of the dark gray, with dark brown dorsal line of irregular markings on both sides, two lateral dorsal scales of the four seems in white, the first and the fourth line from top to bottom edge of gray, and the formation of the serrated lower edge of the white belt pattern; ventral white the outer edge of the dark gray scales, ventral scales the central black point. Cylindrical body, short tail. Single pieces of the nose between the scales, so scales tangent nose, nostrils back position; Eyes small, orbital scales one before, after orbital scales 2; dorsal scales smooth, ventral scales 146 ~ 169; anal scales half; 41 scales under the tail 57 pairs.
Conservation status: This species is considered a high conservation value of the snakes, now red listed as endangered species in China. The species has been included in China's State Forestry Administration, August 1, 2000 release of "The State protects the beneficial or of important economic or scientific value of the list of terrestrial wild animals." |