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title: "Brown-banded watersnake"
description: "Helicops angulatus — Rettili. The brown-banded water snake (Helicops angulatus) is a species of aquatic snake found in tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/brown-banded-watersnake
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Brown-banded watersnake

> Helicops angulatus — Rettili. The brown-banded water snake (Helicops angulatus)  is a species of aquatic snake found in tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago.

- Scientific name: *Helicops angulatus*
- Category: `reptiles` (Rettili)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Laghi e fiumi)
- iNaturalist observations: 1224
- Wikidata: [Q3129752](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3129752)
- iNaturalist taxon: [29976](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/29976)

## Names

- en: Brown-banded watersnake
- de: Braungebänderte Scheelaugennatter
- es: Falsa cuatro narices de agua
- fr: Hélicope grage

## Countries with the most observations

GF (238), BR (223), PE (156), CO (154), EC (137), BO (81), TT (71), SR (55), GY (24), VE (14)

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-banded_water_snake

## Photo

![Brown-banded watersnake](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-banded-watersnake/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andrew J. Crawford · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9369018

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/brown-banded-watersnake?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).