| Fowlea | |
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| Checkered keelback (Fowlea piscator) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Natricinae |
| Genus: | Fowlea Theobald, 1868 |
| Species | |
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Nine, see text. | |
Fowlea is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to Asia.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.1
- Fowlea asperrima (Boulenger, 1891) – Boulenger's keelback
- Fowlea flavipunctata (Hallowell, 1860) – yellow-spotted keelback
- Fowlea melanzosta (Gravenhorst, 1807) – Javan keelback water snake
- Fowlea piscator (Schneider, 1799) – checkered keelback
- Fowlea punctulata (Günther, 1858) – Spotted keelback water snake
- Fowlea sanctijohannis (Boulenger, 1890) – St. John's keelback
- Fowlea schnurrenbergeri (Kramer, 1977) – bar-necked keelback
- Fowlea unicolor (F. Müller, 1887) – Tikiri keelback
- Fowlea yunnanensis (Anderson, 1879) – Yunnan olive keelback
Some snakes of this genus, such as Boulenger's keelback and the checkered keelback, were moved from the genus Xenochrophis.
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Fowlea.
References
References
- Genus Fowlea at The Reptile Database. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
Further reading
- Theobald W (1868). "Catalogue of the Reptiles of British Birma [sic], embracing the Provinces of Pegu, Martaban, and Tenasserim; with descriptions of new or little-known species". Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology. (London) 10: 4–67. (Fowlea, new genus, p. 48).