Helicops angulatus - Citizendia

Brown-banded Water Snake

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Helicops
Species:	H. Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Reptiles, or members of the class Reptilia are air-breathing Cold-blooded Vertebrates that have skin covered in scales as opposed to hair or feathers Squamata (scaled reptiles is the largest recent order of Reptiles including Lizards and Snakes Members of the order are distinguished by A snake is an elongate Reptile of the suborder Serpentes Like all reptiles snakes are covered in scales. A colubrid (from Latin coluber, snake is a Snake that is a member of the Colubridae family. angulatus

Binomial name

Helicops angulatus
Linnaeus, 1758

Helicops angulatus, the Brown-banded Water Snake is an aquatic snake which lives in fresh and brackish water. Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, May 23 new style (13 May old style 1707 who laid the foundations for Year 1758 ( MDCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common A snake is an elongate Reptile of the suborder Serpentes Like all reptiles snakes are covered in scales. Freshwater is a word that refers to bodies of water such as Ponds lakes rivers and streams containing low concentrations of dissolved Salts and other Total dissolved It is found in tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago. South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (ˈtrɪnɪdæd ən təˈbeɪgoʊ is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American It grows to a maximum length of 78 cm. A centimetre ( American spelling: centimeter, symbol cm) is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one hundredth It feeds on fish and possibly also freshwater eels and frogs. Fish are aquatic Vertebrate animals that are typically ectothermic (previously Cold-blooded) covered with scales, and equipped with two True eels ( Anguilliformes) are an order of Fish, which consists of four suborders 19 families 110 Genera and approximately 600 This article is about the block cipher algorithm For the ultrafast laser pulse measurement technique see Frequency-resolved optical gating. This species has been reported to be "facultatively ovoviviparous". Ovoviviparous Animals develop within eggs that remain within the mother's body up until they hatch or are about to hatch These snakes are often mistaken for cottonmouths. Common names cottonmouth water moccasin black moccasin black snake more.

References

Boos, Hans E. A. (2001). The snakes of Trinidad and Tobago. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX. . ISBN 1-58544-116-3.
Ford, Neil B. and Ford, David F. (2002) Notes on the Ecology of the South American Water Snake Helicops angulatus (Squamata: Colubridae) in Nariva Swamp, Trinidad. Caribbean Journal of Science 38: 129-132 PDF

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