Cantoria violacea

Cantoria violacea
Status konservasi
Risiko rendah
IUCN	176678
Taksonomi
Superkerajaan	Holozoa
Kerajaan	Animalia
Filum	Chordata
Kelas	Reptilia
Ordo	Squamata
Famili	Homalopsidae
Genus	Cantoria
Spesies	Cantoria violacea Girard, 1857

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, 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]

• Cantoria @ The Reptile Database
• http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/library/PANSP/Girard_1857_181.pdf Diarsipkan 2005-09-12 di Wayback Machine.