#1794 · 🦎 reptiles

Chequered Keelback

🇳🇱 Xenochrophis piscator ·Fowlea piscator

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The checkered keelback ( Fowlea piscator ), also known commonly as the Asiatic water snake , is a common species of nonvenomous snake in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Asia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,485iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
4,485 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in 1799 (227 years ago).