Green water snake

Weight

up to 105.7 gsrc for Weight

Length

up to 96 cmsrc for Length

Lifespan

Not recorded

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

grassland, shrublandsrc for Habitat

Egg incubation

52 dayssrc for Egg incubation

Young per litter or clutch

27src for Young per litter or clutch

Reproduction

Eggssrc for Reproduction

Active

By day (diurnal)src for Active

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classReptilia
4. orderSquamata
5. familyColubridae
6. genusPhilothamnus
7. SpeciesPhilothamnus hoplogaster (Günther, 1863)

Synonyms Ahaetulla hoplogaster, Chlorophis neglectus, Chlorophis oldhami, Clorophis neglectus

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidata

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• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
  Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4
• SquamBase 1.0 - a dataset of squamate species traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0-dryad-v5
  Meiri, S. (2024) SquamBase - a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(4): e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812. Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76hdr7t3b

@misc{philothamnus_hoplogaster_2026,
  title = {Green water snake (Philothamnus hoplogaster)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/philothamnus-hoplogaster},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}