Kapuas mud snake

Kapuas mud snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Homalopsidae
Genus: Homalophis
Species:
H. gyii
Binomial name
Homalophis gyii
Synonyms[2]
  • Enhydris gyii
    J.C. Murphy, Voris & Auliya, 2005
  • Hypsirhina doriae
    — A.E. Brown, 1902
  • Enhydris doriae
    — Barbour, 1912
  • Enhydris gyii
    — J.C. Murphy, 2007
  • Homalophis gyii
    — J.C. Murphy & Voris, 2014

The Kapuas mud snake (Homalophis gyii) is a species of snake in the family Homalopsidae. The species, which is native to Borneo, can change its epidermal colour spontaneously.[3]

  1. ^ Murphy, J. (2010). "Enhydris gyii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T176679A7282427.en. Accessed on 25 November 2023.
  2. ^ Species Homalophis gyii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ Murphy, John C.; Harold K. Voris; Mark Auliya (31 Dec 2005). "A new species of Enhydris (Serpentes: Colubridae: Homalopsinae) from the Kapuas river system, West Kalimantan, Indonesia" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 53 (2): 271–275. (Enhydris gyii, new species). Retrieved 2006-06-27.