>> The snake was identified as a "ketam timah", a species commonly found in padi fields.



As long as I felt the need to look it up, for anyone interested:



From http://dictionary.bhanot.net/



ketam

(1) crab (2) reap or harvest (3) plane (of wood)

timah

tin



I can't find any reference to "ketam timah", but it seems that "ketam" is the name of an island (translated as "crab" in that case) and I see referces to several people with "Timah" as a last name, so it's not clear how to translate the name. It's obviously a local name that probably won't give us any hint to what snake it is. Anyone here Malay?

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