Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk). Latest update: July 16th, 2024. Taxonomy of the family Homalopsidae Bibliography of the genus Ferania Biodiversity of the family Homalopsidae Genus Ferania Bengal Mud Snake Bengal-Schlammnatter Bengalsk Muddersnog 1842 Ferania Gray (type species: Homalopsis sieboldii Schlegel 1837) 1843 Pythomorphus Fitzinger (type species: Homalopsis sieboldii Schlegel 1837) 1853 Trigonurus Dumeril (type species: Homalopsis sieboldii Schlegel 1837; syn. Murphy & Voris 2014) 1869 Feranioides Carlleyle (type species: Feranioides jamnaeticus Carlleyle 1869; 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 as a separate genus by Kumar, Sanders, George & Murphy (2012). Distribution: As for the single species. Ferania sieboldii Bengal Mud Snake, (Siebold's Mud Snake, Siebold's Smooth Water Snake, Siebold's Water Snake) Bengal-Schlammnatter Bengalsk Muddersnog 1837 Homalopsis sieboldii Schlegel Ferania sieboldi Gray 1842 Trigonurus sieboldi Duméril & Bibron 1854 Hypsirhina sieboldi Jan 1863 Enhydris sieboldi Mell 1929 1869 Feranioides jamnæticus Carlleyle (Murphy 2007) Remarks: Restricted to Yamuna (Jumma?), Ganges, and Brahmaputra drainages in northern India and adjacent countries, according to Whitaker & Captain (2004) and Murphy (2007). Records from southern India (e.g., Goa: Pradhan 2008; Kerala: Easa & Ramachandran 2004; Palot & Radhakrishnan 2003; Smith 1943; Maharashtra: Gyi 1970; Smith 1943; Tamil Nadu: Daniels 2001; Aengals 2009) need confirmation, as they may represent misidentified dussumieri (Murphy 2007; Whitaker & Captain 2004). The only record from West Malaysia is based on a specimen which probably has wrong locality data (Murphy 2007). Distribution: Bangladesh, India (Bihar, Delhi, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal), Myanmar, Nepal.