This is a group of primitive aquatic snakes found in Australia and Indonesia.
Their video shows a brownish object moving side to side like an aquatic snake.
It is a shiny, dark aquatic snake, usually measuring 14-24 inches (36-61 cm).
In the case of some aquatic and marine snakes, the scales are granular and the rows cannot be counted.
This largely aquatic snake spends most of its time in the water.
The Gulf salt marsh snake is a moderately stout aquatic snake.
In certain weather conditions thousands of small green frogs hide in the damp grass from the aquatic snakes.
Minakata in this work has also collected local lore around Japan regarding aquatic snakes capable of killing humans.
This connection seems to serve his conviction that the mizuchi though in later times identified with the kappa, originally referred to aquatic snakes.
Green (or hooked) turtles and venomous aquatic snakes are also indigenous to the forests.