Real Snake Skeleton (Chinese Water Snake-Enhyilris chinensis) specimen encased in clear lucite material. The specimen is crystal clear, transparent and indestructible. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real Snake skeleton right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the skeleton from every angle.

It is clear enough for microscope observation. 

Length of the skeleton: about 24 cm (9.4 inch)

Size of the lucite block is 11.0x4.3x2.1 cm (4.3x1.7x0.8 inch).

Weight of the lucite block is 100 g.

Total weight with a packing box is 125 g.

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item.

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Common Name: Chinese Water Snake ( Enhyilris chinensis )

Taxonomic Position Reptilia: fouamata: Serpentes: Chlubridae

Recognization Poisonous snake with rear fangs. Total length up to 700mm. Yellowish-brown above, scattered with black spots arranged in longitudinal rows, the outermost scale row black, outer 2nd and 3rd rows white; belly yellow, the anterior margin of each ventral scale with black. Head depressed, scarcely distinct from neck; eyes small with vertical pupil; nostrils on the upper surface of the snout, nasals in contact with one another; single internasal behind them; one pre-and two post-oculars; temporals 1 + 2;  supralabials 7 (8, 9),  in 3 - 1 f 3 (4, 5) formula. Body cylindrical, dorsal scales smooth, in 23(25)- 23 (25)- 19 rows; ventrals 139-155; anal divided. Tail short, subcaudals 38-51 pairs.

Local Range Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi , Hainan, Hong Kong, Hubei , Jiangsu,

Jiangxi, Taiwan, and Zhejiang.

Biology Inhabits rice fields, irrigation canals and ditches, ponds, and their vicinity. Active during daytime as well as at night. Feeds on fishes and frogs. Ovoviviparous, produces from 3 to 13 young during August and September,  the total length of young just after birth being100-150mm.

Current Status Southern Chinese people have had the custom to make gruel with water snakes. And they believe that water snake has a certain therapeutic significance. Thus it has been killed in large numbers every year. Moreover, they were also killed by pesticides and chemical fertilizers in their habitats. In addition, many rice fields were changed for construction purposes, leading to reduction in habitat of Chinese water snakes.

Protective Measures and Suggestion Based on detailed surveys to determine whether the Chinese water snake is beneficial or harmful to mankind, and it abundance, then it will be time to work out appropriate conservation measures.

Enhydris species are generally very hardy snakes that are not difficult to keep. However, their needs are somewhat specialized compared to the husbandry of most types of Watersnakes. These Chinses watersnakes are almost 100% Aquatic. Unlike most types of watersnakes-These guys really love the water. They live in conditions that are water and 100% humidity. They don't develop the dreaded "water blisters" that most other watersnakes do.