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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: April 12th, 2025.


Taxonomy of the family Homalopsidae
Bibliography of the genus Bitia
Biodiversity of the family Homalopsidae








Genus
Bitia

Keel-bellied Estuarine Snake

Wasserschuppenkopf-Natter

Kølbuget Deltasnog

1842 Bitia Gray (type species: Bitia hydroides Gray 1842)
1849 Hipistes Gray (type species: Hipistes fasciatus Gray 1849; syn. Murphy 2007)
Contents: 1 species, which is not endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Distribution: As for the single species.

Meristic and other data
of the world's snakes.
Compiled by
V. Wallach
Key to abbreviations


Head drawings of the
genus Bitia.
Compiled by
V. Wallach

Bitia hydroides

Keel-bellied Estuarine Snake, Keel-bellied Water Snake, Keel-bellied Mud Snake

Wasserschuppenkopf-Natter

Kølbuget Deltasnog

1842 Bitia hydroides Gray
1847 Homalopsis hydrina Cantor (Murphy 2007)
Hipistes hydrinus Günther 1864
1849 Hipistes fasciatus Gray (Murphy 2007)

Remarks: Present in the past, but not confirmed recently from Singapore (Baker & Lim 2008).
Extinct in: Singapore.
Distribution: Malaysia (West Malaysia), Myanmar, Thailand.