Fowlea
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| Fowlea | |
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| Checkered keelback (Fowlea piscator) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Natricinae |
| Genus: | Fowlea Theobald, 1868 |
| Species | |
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Fowlea is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to Asia.
Species[edit]
The following species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Fowlea asperrima (Boulenger, 1891) – Boulenger's keelback
- Fowlea flavipunctata (Hallowell, 1860) – yellow-spotted keelback
- Fowlea melanzosta (Gravenhorst, 1807) – Javan keelback water snake
- Fowlea piscator (Schneider, 1799) – checkered keelback
- Fowlea punctulata (Günther, 1858)
- Fowlea sanctijohannis (Boulenger, 1890) – St. John's keelback
- Fowlea schnurrenbergeri Kramer, 1977
- Fowlea unicolor (Müller, 1887)
- Fowlea yunnanensis Anderson, 1879
Some snakes of this genus, like the Boulenguer's keelback and Checkered keelback came originally from the genus Xenochrophis.
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Fowlea.
References[edit]
- ^ Genus Fowlea at The Reptile Database. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
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