Stock Photo - Erpeton tentaculata, Print, Erpeton is a genus of water snake of the family Homalopsidae, which includes a single known species, the tentacled snake, Erpeton tentaculatum, which is native to South-East Asia. They are aquatic and extremely fast in catching their prey, small fish.The snakes accomplish the capture of their prey by cheating on a C-start escape reflex of the fish: after a fish approaches, the snake bends, and makes a quick movement with a measured segment of its body, startling the fish exactly in the direction of snake's head., 1700-1880

Stock Photo: Erpeton tentaculata, Print, Erpeton is a genus of water snake of the family Homalopsidae, which includes a single known species, the tentacled snake.

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