Brown-banded water snake

Brown-banded water snake
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Helicops
Species:
H. angulatus
Binomial name
Helicops angulatus
Synonyms
  • Coluber angulatus
    Linnaeus, 1758
  • Coluber surinamensis
    Shaw, 1802
  • Natrix aspera
    Wagler, 1824
  • Uranops angulatus
    Gray, 1849
  • Helicops angulatus
    Boulenger, 1893

The brown-banded water snake (Helicops angulatus) is a species of aquatic snake found in tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It is also known as the water mapepire.