Enhydris is a genus of slightly venomous, rear-fanged snakes in the family Homalopsidae. The genus is endemic to the tropical area of Indo-Australian region.Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. . (Genus Enhydris, pp. 326–327).
Species The following 6 species are recognized:"Enhydris ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov. www.reptile-database.org.
Enhydris chanardi Murphy & Voris, 2005 Enhydris enhydris (Schneider, 1799) Enhydris innominata (Morice, 1875) Enhydris jagorii (W. Peters, 1863) Enhydris longicauda (Bourret, 1934) Enhydris subtaeniata (Bourret, 1934)
Several additional species have traditionally been placed here, but are now often in genera such as Subsessor and Pseudoferania. Another species, Enhydris smithi , was considered to be a valid species by herpetologists M.A. Smith 1943, Das 2010, and Wallach et al. 2014, but was considered to be a synonym of Enhydris jagorii by Cox et al. 1998, and Murphy & Voris 2014. www.reptile-database.org.
Nota bene: In the list above, a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Enhydris.
Etymology The specific names, jagorii and smithi, are in honor of German naturalist Fedor Jagor and British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith, respectively.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Enhydris jagorii, p. 132; Enhydris smithi, p. 247).
References
Further reading Sonnini CS, Latreille PA (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. Tome IV. Seconde Partie. Serpens. Paris: Deterville. (Crapelet, printer). 410 pp. (Enhydris, new genus, pp. 200–201). (in French).