Cerberus rynchops, Dog-faced water snake
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Cerberus rynchops   (Schneider, 1799)

Dog-faced water snake
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Reptilia | Squamata | Colubridae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Demersal; brackish; depth range 2 - 2 m (Ref. 75682).  Tropical

Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-West Pacific.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 67.0 cm SVL male/unsexed; (Ref. 75682)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Depth and length based on occurrence record; to be replaced with better reference.

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Jayne, B.C., H.K. Voris and K.B. Heang 1988 Diet, feeding behavior, growth and numbers of a population of Cerberus rynchops (Serpentes: Homalopsinae) in Malaysia. Fieldiana 50:1-15. (Ref. 75682)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 15 February 2009

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

Human uses


FAO - Publication: search | FishSource |

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E-book | Field guide

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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO - Publication: search | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Resilience
(Ref. 69278):		 High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.27-0.41)
Fishing Vulnerability
(Ref. 71543)		 Moderate to high vulnerability (49 of 100).