Species of Thailand
Yellow-spotted keelback
Fowlea flavipunctatus, Edward Hallowell, 1860
(In Thai: งูลายสอบ้าน, ngu lai sor baan)
The yellow-spotted keelback, Xenochrophis flavipunctatus, is a species of colubrid snake found in
India, Thailand, China, West Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, and Kalimantan) Its type locality is: Island of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) and Canton River?, China
IUCN includes Taiwan in the range of X. flavipunctatus, but excludes India, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
X. f. schnurrenbergeri of Nepal is now considered an independent species, Xenochrophis schnurrenbergeri.
Habitat and behaviour
X. flavipunctatus is a semiaquatic snake that occurs in slow rivers and streams, marshes, swamps, ponds, and lakes. It thrives also in wet human-modified habitats, including rice fields and ditches. It feeds on fish and frogs. It is diurnal.
Relations with humans
X. flavipunctatus is exploited in parts of it range to support snake farms and pigs and for use in snake wine.
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Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Suborder
- Serpentes
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Fowlea
- Species
- Fowlea flavipunctatus
Common names
- German: Gelbflecken-Fischnatter
- English:
- Common keelback
- Yellow-spotted keelback
- Thai:
- งูลายสอบ้าน, ngu lai sor baan
- งูลายสอสวน, ngu lai sor suan
Synonyms
- Fowlea flavipunctatus, Jayaditya Purkayastha et al. (2019)
- Xenochrophis flavipunctatus, Van Stanley Bartholomew Wallach et al. (2014)
- Xenochrophis flavipunctatus, Patrick David & Gernot Vogel (2006)
- Xenochrophis flavipunctatus, Olivier S.G. Pauwels et al. (2000)
- Xenochrophis flavipunctatus, Ulrich Manthey & Wolfgang Grossmann (1997)
- Natrix piscator flavipunctata, Malcolm Arthur Smith (1943)
- Tropidonotus piscator ornatus, Frank Wall (1907)
- Amphiesma flavipunctatum, Edward Hallowell (1860)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN3.1)
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