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Snakes (Serpentes)    Genera Bitia Keel-bellied Estuarine Snake Brachyorrhos Moluccan Short-tailed Snakes Calamophis Doberai Stout-tailed Snakes Cantoria Yellow-banded Mangrove Snake Cerberus Dog-faced Water Snakes Dieurostus Kerala Mud Snake Djokoiskandarus Trans-Fly Mangrove Snake Enhydris Asian Mud Snakes Erpeton Tentacled Snake Ferania Bengal Mud Snake Fordonia White-bellied Mangrove Snake Gerarda Glossy Marsh Snake Gyiophis Burmese Mud Snakes Heurnia Mamberamo River Water Snake Homalophis Bornean Mud Snakes Homalopsis Masked Water Snakes Hypsiscopus Orange-bellied Mud Snake, etc. Karnsophis Sumatra Short-tailed Snake Kualatahan Pahang Mud Snake Mintonophis Pakistani Mud Snake Miralia Greater Sunda Mud Snake Myanophis Thanlyin Mud Snake Myron Indo-Australian Mangrove Snakes Myrrophis Indochinese Mud Snakes Phytolopsis Blackwater Mud Snake Pseudoferania Australian Mud Snake Raclitia Selangor Mud Snake Subsessor Southeast Asian Mud Snake Sumatranus White-spotted Mud Snake

Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk). Latest update: January 1st, 2025. Biodiversity of the family Homalopsidae Bibliography of the family Homalopsidae Homalopsidae Australasian Mud Snakes Wassertrugnattern     Australasiatiske Muddersnoge* Contents: Endemicity: 29 genera of which 12 (41.4%) are endemic   0% 100% 60 species of which 32 (53.3%) are endemic   0% 100% Remarks: This family was previously considered a subfamily of Colubridae (e.g., Goin, Goin & Zug 1978; Voris, Alfaro, Karns, Starnes, Thompson & Murphy 2002). Most works now treat it as a separate family, Homalopsidae (e.g., Murphy 2007; Zaher, Grazziotin, Cadle, Murphy, Moura-Leite & Bonatto 2009; Murphy & Voris 2014; Vitt & Caldwell 2014). Distribution:  S. Asia, Malay Archipelago, Australia, W. Pacific. Reported from: Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.