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Hydrodynastes
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Hydrodynastes

Hydrodynastes is a small genus of large colubrid snakes in the subfamily Xenodontinae. The genus is endemic to South America.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

False Water Cobra

speciesHydrodynastes gigas

Herrmann's Water Snake

speciesHydrodynastes bicinctus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 29903.