Jabarkan Taxonomy dari Oray welang dalam bahasa sunda

Subspecies F. p. melanzostus tos didaftarkeun  kana spésiés status, salaku Fowlea melanzostus, ku  Indraneil Das dina 1996.

Bengali – জল ঢোঁড়া/আটঘরিয়া সাপ

Malayalam – നീർക്കോലി,പുളവൻ (Neerkkoli, Pulavan)

Tamil – கண்டங்கண்டை நீர்க்கோலி (kandangkandai neerkoli)

Telugu – నీరు కట్టే (neeru katte)

Chinese (Traditional Chinese) – "漁游蛇"

Chinese (Simplified Chinese) – "渔游蛇"

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Dutt, Kalma (1970). "Chromosome Variation in Two Populations of Xenochrophis piscator Schn. from North and South India (Serpentes, Colubridae)". Cytologia 35: 455–464.

Schneider JG (1799). Historiae Amphibiorum naturalis et literariae. Fasciculus Primus, continens Ranas, Calamitas, Bufones, Salamandras et Hydros. Jena: F. Frommann. xiii + 264 pp. + corrigenda + Plate I. (Hydrus piscator, new species, pp. 247–248). (in Latin).

Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Amphibia and Reptilia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Tropidonotus piscator, pp. 293–296, Figures 95–96).