Common name: the Yellow-spotted Keelback
Conservation status: Least Concern
Distribution: India, Thailand, Myanmar, China, Hongkong, West Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangladesh
Size: up to 1000 mm
Description: upperside coloration olive-gray with yellow, orange or red tint with a pattern of small dark and light spots and dark transverse stripes. Underside is pale yellow
Habitat: slow rivers, streams, marshes, swamps, flooded rice fields, ponds, lakes and ditches
Activity: nocturnal and diurnal
Diet: fish, frogs
Reproduction: oviparous
Photo gallery:
Vietnam (Cat Tien National Park)
