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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 Miralia
Biodiversity of the family Homalopsidae








Genus
Miralia

Greater Sunda Mud Snake

Sunda-Schlammnatter

Sunda-muddersnog

1842 Miralia Gray (type species: Brachyorrhos alternans Reuss 1834)
1843 Pelophis Fitzinger (type species: Brachyorrhos alternans Reuss 1834; syn. Murphy & Voris 2014)
Contents: 1 species, which is not endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Remarks: Previously regarded as a synonym of Enhydris (e.g., Murphy 2007). Revalidated by Murphy & Voris (2014).
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 Miralia.
Compiled by
V. Wallach

Miralia alternans

Greater Sunda Mud Snake, Yellow-banded Mud Snake, Yellow-banded Water Snake, (Reuss' Mud Snake)

Sunda-Schlammnatter

Sunda-muddersnog

1834 Brachyorrhos alternans Reuss
Miralia alternans Gray 1842
Eurostus alternans Duméril & Bibron 1854
Hypsirhina alternans Jan 1863
Enhydris alternans Haas 1950
1837 Homalopsis decussata Schlegel (Murphy 2007)

Distribution: Indonesia (Bangka, Belitung, Java, Sumatra), Malaysia (Sarawak).