The upperside of the mud snake is glossy, black.

Mud snakes are mostly aquatic, and nocturnal.

The great swamp lizards fought with mud snakes, insects, and dragon parrots to destroy him.

A mud snake, yes.

Mud snakes inhabit the edges of streams and cypress swamps, among dense vegetation or under ground debris.

Notes on the Mud Snake in Florida.

The mud snake is one of a few animals which may be the origin of the hoop snake myth.

Lair of the Mud Snake (third temple)

It encompasses a number of genera, which include species such as mud snakes and New World hognose snakes.

Farancia abacura reinwardti, Western mud snake, from the United States

Farancia abacura reinwardtii - western mud snake

Carefully he wrapped the uneaten segment of mud snake and placed it in a pocket of his blaze rainsuit.

Field Museum: Mud Snakes

Xenodontinae (Mud Snake)

It consists of two species, one commonly referred to as the rainbow snake and the other commonly referred to as the mud snake.

Aquatic Snakes: Mud Snakes

Kapuas mud snake, Enhydris gyii Murphy, Voris & Auliya, 2005

Tendrils of black mud snaked between my toes, sending forth this the essence of this beguiling place, redolent of salt, earth and sky.

The Kapuas mud snake (Enhydris gyii) is a native Borneo species of snakes that can change its epidermal color spontaneously.

("The Mud Snake", Farancia abacura, pp.

Some have suggested that is a distorted description of the sidewinder of the American southwest, or of mud snakes, which will occasionally lie in a loose hoop shape.

The mud snake (Farancia abacura) is a species of non venomous, semiaquatic, colubrid snake endemic to the southeastern United States.

Mud snakes usually grow to a total length of 40 to 54 inches (1-1.4 m), with the record total length being slightly over 80 inches (2 m).

Discoveries of new species are frequent, such as of the Kapuas mud snake (Enhydris gyii), which was discovered in 2003-2005 by the German and American herpetologists.

The mud snake is found in the southeastern United States, in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Farancia abacura reinwardti, Western mud snake, from the United States

There are two recognized subspecies of Farancia abacura, including the nominotypical subspecies:

Farancia abacura reinwardtii - western mud snake

Breeding Habits of Farancia abacura in Captivity.

Herps of Texas: Farancia abacura

(Farancia abacura, pp.

Illinois Natural History Survey: Farancia abacura

The mud snake (Farancia abacura) is a species of non venomous, semiaquatic, colubrid snake endemic to the southeastern United States.

Farancia abacura - Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky.