The brown-banded water snake (Helicops angulatus) is a species of aquatic snake found in tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It is also known as the water mapepire.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Brown-banded watersnake being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Fowlea asperrima
- Homalopsis buccata
- Trimerodytes aequifasciatus
- Trimerodytes annularis
- Homalopsis mereljcoxi
- Cerberus rynchops
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Helicops
- Species
- Helicops angulatus
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