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Olive Keelback

Atretium schistosum

Photo by rivu.ghorai
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Field Notes

Description:

Uniform deep olive brown above and yellow of varying intensity below. The two colours abruptly demarcated on the penultimate row of coastals.

Habitat:

Lives mainly in water or surrounding vegetation, it is a diurnal snake. Feeds on frogs, fish and crab.

Species ID Suggestions

smooth scaled water snake

Enhydris enhydris

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PublishedMay 25, 2011

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