The KISIK SNAKE

The snake kisik was a kind of snake from the Colubridae ethnic group. In the Javanese language this snake was known as ula lare-angon (the snake of the shepherd's child) because this omesticated snake normally becomes the game of the shepherd's children in Central Java. His name in English was striped keelback, referred to lines memanjang and the form of the scales of his back that berlunas (keeled). His scientific name was Xenochrophis vittatus. The snake kisik generally bertubuh small slender. It was long that the maximal body reached 70 cm, but generally only around 50 cm. His tail around a quarter of all long his body. The snake kisik was the land snake that lived off waters. He occupied plain rainforests as far as the low mountainous forest until the height around 1200 m. dpl., as well as the agricultural environment and the settlement around it. The snake kisik especially liking the environment close to the river, saliran, the swamp, the paddy-field and the pond, where this snake could swim well. The snake kisik limited spread in Sumatra. We Island and Bangka and Java. Introduced to Singapore.