Cantoria violacea adalah spesies ular air langka yang terdapat di daerah tropis Asia Tenggara.
Pengenalan
Warna tubuhnya belang-belang putih dan gelap hingga ekor.[1]
Penyebaran
Myanmar, Thailand, Kepulauan Andaman, Malaysia, Singapura, dan Indonesia (Sumatra dan Kalimantan).
Referensi dan pustaka
- ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.
- Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
- Frith,C.B. & Boswell,J. 1978 Cantor's Water Snake, Cantoria violaecea Girard, a vertebrate new to the fauna of Thailand. Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc. (Bangkok) 27: 187-189
- Ghodke, Sameer and Harry V. Andrews 2002 Recent record of Cantoria violacea (Girard, 1857) from North and Middle Andaman Islands, India with a note on its bite. Hamadryad. 26 (2):371-373 [2001]
- Girard,C. 1858 Descriptions of some new Reptiles, collected by the US. Exploring Expedition under the command of Capt. Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Third Part. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 9: 181-182 [1857]
