Subsessor

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata
Cladus: Toxicofera
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Caenophidia
Superfamilia: Homalopsoidea

Familia: Homalopsidae
Genus: Subsessor
Species (1): S. bocourti
Name

Subsessor Murphy & Voris, 2014: 33

Type species: Hypsirhina bocourti Jan, 1865, by original designation.
References
Primary references

Murphy, J.C. & Voris, H.K. 2014. A Checklist and Key to the Homalopsid Snakes (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes), with the Description of New Genera. Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences 8: 1–43. Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Subsessor . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 24 November 2018.

Subsessor is a genus of snake in the family Homalopsidae. The genus is monotypic, containing the sole species Subsessor bocourti.[2] The species is commonly known as Bocourt's mud snake or Bocourt's water snake and has traditionally been placed in the genus Enhydris.[1]
Etymology

Both the specific name, bocourti, and the common name, Bocourt's water snake, refer to French zoologist Marie Firmin Bocourt.[2][3]
Geographic range and habitat

S. bocourti is found in a wide range of stagnant fresh water habitats in Mainland Southeast Asia.[1][2] Records from China are questionable.[2]
Description

A robust snake, S. bocourti can surpass 1 m (3.3 ft) in length.[2]
Reproduction

S. bocourti is a live bearing species,[2] giving birth to, on average, 3-8 fully formed neonate snakes.[citation needed]
Diet

S. bocourti feeds on frogs, fishes, and crustaceans.[2]
Commercial use

Bocourt's water snake is widely caught for its skin and sometimes also eaten.[1]
References

Murphy, J. (2010). "Subsessor bocourti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T176692A7284792. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T176692A7284792.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
Subsessor bocourti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 December 2016.

Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Enhydris bocourti, p. 28).

Further reading

Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III. Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. ("Hypsirhina bocourtii [sic]", pp. 10–11).
Chan-ard, [Mr.] Tanya; Parr, John W. K.; Nabhitabhata, Jarujin (2015). A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand. New York: Oxford University Press. 352 pp. (Enhydris bocourti, p. 239).
Jan G (1865). "Enumerazione sistematica degli ofidi appartenenti al gruppo Potamophilidae ". Archivio per la Zoologia, l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia 3 (2): 201-265. (Hypsirhina bocourti, new species, pp. 258–260). (in Italian).
Murphy, John C.; Voris, Harold K. (2014). "A Checklist and Key to the Homalopsid Snakes (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes), with the Description of New Genera". Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences (8): 1-43. (Subsessor, new genus, p. 33; S. bocourti, new combination, p. 34, Figure 50).
Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Enhydris bocourti, new combination, pp. 388–389).