A large aquatic fish-eating snake with coarse-textured scales, native to SE Asia and Australia.
瘰鳞蛇。亦称FILE SNAKE
Family Achrochordidae and genus Achrochordus: three species, e.g. the Asian wart snake (A. arafurae)
Also called file snake
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If they are the banded wart snakes they make good display snakes and require slightly brackish water.
He said true sea snakes, annulated sea snakes, ornate sea snakes, Viperine sea snakes, Persian Gulf sea snakes, wart snakes were among the new species recorded in Gulf of Mannar area.
Acrochordus javanicus is also known as the wart snake and the karung.
The nonpoisonous variety of snakes include the common blind snake, the Russell sand boa, the Indian python, and the Indian wart snake.
The Asian wart snakes of India, south east Asia, New Guinea and Australia have scales that lie next to each other and each have a sharp ridge.
The Javan wart snake is found on the coastal regions of India and Ceylon, and also across the Indo-Australian islands as far as the Solomons.
Also known as wart snakes or elephant-trunk snakes, the file snakes have baggy skin that lies in loose folds.
The hides of six snake species (especially pythons and wart snakes) are commonly bought and sold in the skin trade.