Dog-headed freshwater snakes [1] , or Cerberus [1] ( lat. Cerberus ) is a genus of snakes from the family Homalopsidae that lives in Southeast Asia .
| Dog-headed Freshwater Snakes |
Dog-headed already |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infraclass : | Lepidosauromorphs |
| Infrastructure : | Alethinophidia |
| Gender: | Dog-headed Freshwater Snakes |
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| International scientific name |
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Cerberus Cuvier , 1829 |
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The total length of representatives of this genus ranges from 60 cm to 1.2 m. The head resembles a dog’s face in shape; a wide and long upper jaw gives this similarity. The head is long, clearly delimited from the neck. The eyes are small with round pupils. There are mandibular poisonous fangs. The body is strong, elongated. The tail is short.
Coloring is various: gray, brown, black, olive with specks or spots. The belly is lighter than the back.
The poison does not pose a threat to human life.
Inhabit river mouths , various reservoirs, mangroves . Swim and dive well. Active mainly at night, occasionally during the day. They feed on fish, crustaceans , and occasionally amphibians .
These are ovoviviparous snakes. Females give birth to up to 30 cubs.
They live in Australia , Indonesia , Bangladesh , Cambodia , India , Malaysia , Myanmar , the Philippines .
As of August 2018, 5 species are included in the genus [2] [1] :
- Cerberus australis (Gray, 1842) - Australian dog-headed
- Cerberus dunsoni Murphy, Voris & Karns, 2012
- Cerberus microlepis Boulenger, 1896
- Cerberus rynchops (Schneider, 1799) - Dog - headed
- Cerberus schneiderii (Schlegel, 1837)
- ↑ 1 2 3 Ananyeva N. B. , Borkin L. Ya. , Darevsky I.S. , Orlov N.L. Amphibians and reptiles. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1988 .-- S. 287. - 10,500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00232-X .
- ↑ The Reptile Database: Cerberus
- Cuvier, 1829: Le Règne Animal Distribué, d'après son Organization, pour servir de base à l'Histoire naturelle des Animaux et d'introduction à l'Anatomie Comparé. Nouvelle Edition [second edition]. Vol. 2. Les Reptiles. Déterville, Paris, p. 1-406. ( Cerberus , new genus, p. 81).
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 . (Genus Cerberus , p. 50).
