Bocourt's water snake
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It feeds on fish and lives in swamps and rivers.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Bocourt's water snake
- Scientific name
- Subsessor bocourti
- Japanese name
- オオミズヘビ
- Group
- Amphibians and reptiles
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Homalopsidae
- Genus
- Subsessor
Where the name “Bocourt's water snake” comes from
The scientific name bocourti honors Bocourt, a French naturalist.
The Reptile DatabaseHow the Bocourt's water snake lives
It hunts by staying still and waiting for prey.
The Reptile DatabaseBasic data
- Diet
- Fish
- Range
- Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and western Malaysia
Where the Bocourt's water snake has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- オオミズヘビ
- 简体中文
- 腹斑水蛇
- 繁體中文
- 腹斑水蛇
- Deutsch
- Bocourts Wassertrugnatter
- ไทย
- งูไซ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — オオミズヘビChecked: 2026-11-04
- The Reptile Database — Subsessor bocourti (JAN, 1865)Checked: 2026-11-09
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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