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Mountain Keelback

Helicops angulatus

Classification

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. Description The brown-banded water snake grows to a maximum total length (including tail) of 78 cm (31 inches), although a female measuring 113 cm in has been reported in Bahia state, Brazil.

Distribution

Schöneberg Y, Köhler G · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 160Peru · 138France