Kingdom Animalia Order Squamata Family Colubridae Scientific name Erpeton Rank Genus | Phylum Chordata Suborder Serpentes Subfamily Homalopsinae Higher classification Homalopsinae | |
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Similar Snake, Reptile, Colubridae, Homalopsinae, Homalopsis | ||
Tentacled snake erpeton tentaculatum
Erpeton is a genus of water snake of the family Colubridae, which includes a single known species, the tentacled snake, Erpeton tentaculatum, which is native to South-East Asia. They are aquatic and extremely fast in catching their prey, small fish. The snakes accomplish the capture of their prey by cheating on a C-start escape reflex of the fish: after a fish approaches, the snake bends, and makes a quick movement with a measured segment of its body, startling the fish exactly in the direction of snake's head.
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Tentacled snake erpeton tentaculatum
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