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| name = ''Enhydris''
| taxon = Enhydris
| authority = [[Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt|Sonnini]] & [[Pierre André Latreille|Latreille]], 1802<ref name="DT">"''Enhydris'' ". ''Dahms Tierleben''. www.dahmstierleben.de</ref>
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision =
Six, see text
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[[File:Guangzhou-snakes-at-restaurant-0457.jpg|thumb|The snake called "海豹蛇" ("sea-leopard snake", ''Enhydris bocourti'', but now often moved to monotypic genus ''[[Subsessor]]''), accompanied by a list of options for serving it, occupies a place of honor among the creatures displayed outside of a [[Guangzhou]] restaurant]]

'''''Enhydris''''' is a [[genus]] of slightly [[venom]]ous, [[Opisthoglyphous|rear-fanged]] [[snake]]s in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Homalopsidae]]. The genus is [[Endemism|endemic]] to the tropical area of Indo-Australian region.<ref>[[species:Coleman Jett Goin|Goin CJ]], [[species:Olive B. Goin|Goin OB]], [[species:George Robert Zug|Zug GR]] (1978). ''Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition''. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. {{ISBN|0-7167-0020-4}}. (Genus ''Enhydris'', pp. 326–327).</ref>

==Species==
The following 6 [[species]] are recognized:<ref name="DT"/><ref>"''Enhydris'' ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.</ref><ref>{{EMBL genus|genus=Enhydris}} www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

* ''[[Enhydris chanardi]]'' <small>[[species:John C. Murphy|Murphy]] & [[species:Harold K. Voris|Voris]], 2005</small>
* ''[[Enhydris enhydris]]'' <small>([[Johann Gottlob Schneider|Schneider]], 1799)</small>
* ''[[Enhydris innominata]]'' <small>([[species:Jean-Claude Albert Morice|Morice]], 1875)</small>
* ''[[Enhydris jagorii]]'' <small>([[Wilhelm Peters|W. Peters]], 1863)</small>
* ''[[Enhydris longicauda]]'' <small>([[René Léon Bourret|Bourret]], 1934)</small>
* ''[[Enhydris subtaeniata]]'' <small>(Bourret, 1934)</small>

Several additional species have traditionally been placed here, but are now often in genera such as ''[[Subsessor]]'' and ''[[Pseudoferania]]''. Another species, ''[[Enhydris smithi]]'' {{small|([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1914)}}, was considered to be a valid species by [[Herpetology|herpetologists]] [[Malcolm Arthur Smith|M.A. Smith 1943]], [[:fr:Indraneil Das|Das]] 2010, and [[Van Wallach|Wallach]] et al. 2014, but was considered to be a synonym of ''Enhydris jagorii'' by Cox et al. 1998, and Murphy & Voris 2014.<ref>{{EMBL species|genus=Enhydris|species=jagorii}} www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

''[[Nota bene]]'': In the list above,  a [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Enhydris''.

==Etymology==
The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific names]], ''jagorii'' and ''smithi'', are in honor of German naturalist [[Fedor Jagor]] and British herpetologist [[Malcolm Arthur Smith]], respectively.<ref>[[species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]]; [[species:Michael Watkins|Watkins, Michael]]; [[species:Michael Grayson|Grayson, Michael]] (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Enhydris jagorii'', p. 132; ''Enhydris smithi'', p. 247).</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* [[Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt|Sonnini CS]], [[Pierre André Latreille|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.&nbsp;200–201). (in French).


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