Rice paddy snake
The rice paddy snake or plumbeous water snake is a species of mildly venomous, rear-fanged snake endemic to South Asia.Geographic range
H. plumbea is found in India, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, southeastern China, Thailand, and Vietnam.Habitat
The rice paddy snake is a common and abundant species associated with all sorts of wet habitats.Taxonomy
DNA evidence suggests that this taxon might be a species complex.Description
The rice paddy snake is a relatively small snake, reaching a total length of up to.This snake feed readily on small fish, frogs, and occasionally small lizards. It has countershading coloration, which is dark brown to grey in upper part of its body, and light colored white to yellowish color at the bottom of its body. This snake mostly nocturnal, and give birth to live young
