Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Jack's Water Snake 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
- Homalopsis buccata
- Helicops angulatus
- Fowlea asperrima
- Trimerodytes aequifasciatus
- Ophiophagus hannah — considered venomous
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Homalopsidae
- Genus
- Homalopsis
- Species
- Homalopsis mereljcoxi
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