Fowlea

{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Xenochrophis piscator sal.jpg | image_caption = Checkered keelback (''Fowlea piscator'') | taxon = Fowlea | authority = Theobald, 1868 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = Nine, see text. }}

'''''Fowlea''''' is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to Asia.

==Species== The following species are recognized as being valid.<ref>{{EMBL genus|genus=Fowlea}}. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

*''Fowlea asperrima'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1891)}} – Boulenger's keelback *''Fowlea flavipunctata'' {{small|(Hallowell, 1860)}} – yellow-spotted keelback *''Fowlea melanzosta'' {{small|(Gravenhorst, 1807)}} – Javan keelback water snake *''Fowlea piscator'' {{small|(Schneider, 1799)}} – checkered keelback *''Fowlea punctulata'' {{small|(Günther, 1858)}} – Spotted keelback water snake *''Fowlea sanctijohannis'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1890)}} – St. John's keelback *''Fowlea schnurrenbergeri'' {{small|(Kramer, 1977)}} – bar-necked keelback *''Fowlea unicolor'' {{small|(F. Müller, 1887)}} – Tikiri keelback *''Fowlea yunnanensis'' {{small|(Anderson, 1879)}} – Yunnan olive keelback

Some snakes of this genus, such as Boulenger's keelback and the checkered keelback, were moved from the genus ''Xenochrophis''.

''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Fowlea''.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *Theobald W (1868). "Catalogue of the Reptiles of British Birma [sic], embracing the Provinces of Pegu, Martaban, and Tenasserim; with descriptions of new or little-known species". ''Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology. (London)'' '''10''': 4–67. (''Fowlea'', new genus, p. 48).

Category:Fowlea Category:Snake genera Category:Taxa named by William Theobald