The Acrochordidae, commonly known as wart snakes, Java wart snakes, file snakes, elephant trunk snakes, or dogface snakes are a monogeneric family of snakes. are basal aquatic snakes found in Australia and tropical Asia, with three species recognized.

|Acrochordus arafurae <br/>McDowell, 1979

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|New Guinea and northern Australia.

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|Little wart snake

|Acrochordus granulatus <br/>(Schneider, 1799)

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|Peninsular India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, the Andaman Islands, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and coastal northern Australia.

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|Elephant trunk snake

|Acrochordus javanicus <br/>Hornstedt, 1787

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|Southeast Asia from Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, south through Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia (Sumatra, Java and Borneo).

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References

  • Acrochordus.com. Accessed 3 November 2008.
  • Acrochordids at Life is Short but Snakes are Long