Hebius modestus, Modest keelback, Günther's keelback
Hebius modestus, commonly known as the modest keelback or Günther's keelback, is a species of natricine snake endemic to Asia.
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TerrestrialTerrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g., cats, ants, snails), as compared with aquatic animals, which liv...
Oviparous animals are female animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive...
Precocial species are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching. Precocial species are normall...
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starts withAdults may attain 60 cm (2 feet) in overall length; tail length 18 cm (7 inches).
Dorsally the modest keelback is olive brown with small black spots. It has a series of small yellowish spots, or a yellowish stripe, along each side of its back. The labial sutures are black. Ventrally it may be yellowish with a series of blackish spots on each side of the ventrals, or yellowish in the middle and blackish on the sides, or almost entirely blackish.
The dorsal scales are in 19 rows, weakly keeled. Ventrals 154-168; anal divided; subcaudals 96-122, also divided.
