- (subdivisions) and the
families they contain. This is the
group of
reptiles commonly known as
snakes.
There are two
infraorders of
living snakes: Alethinophidia...
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Coral snakes are a
large group of
elapid snakes that can be
divided into two
distinct groups, the Old
World coral snakes and New
World coral snakes. There...
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largest living snakes in the world,
measured either by
length or by weight, are
various members of the
Boidae and
Pythonidae families. They
include anacondas...
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Snakes are elongated, limbless,
carnivorous reptiles of the
suborder Serpentes (/sɜːrˈpɛntiːz/). Like all
other squamates,
snakes are ectothermic, amniote...
- Latin: coluber, '
snake') is a
family of
snakes. With 249 genera, it is the
largest snake family. The
earliest fossil species of the
family date back to the...
- The
Viperidae (vipers) are a
family of
snakes found in most
parts of the world,
except for Antarctica, Australia, Hawaii, Madagascar, New Zealand, Ireland...
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Hognose snake is a
common name for
several unrelated species of
snakes with
upturned snouts,
classified in two
colubrid snake families and one pseudoxyrhophiid...
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grooved fangs,
although some
venomous snakes lack well-developed fangs.
Common venomous snakes include the
families Elapidae, Viperidae, Atractaspididae...
- The Boidae,
commonly known as boas or boids, are a
family of
nonvenomous snakes primarily found in the Americas, as well as Africa, Europe, Asia, and some...
- Rat
snakes are
members –
along with kingsnakes, milk
snakes, vine
snakes and
indigo snakes – of the
subfamily Colubrinae of the
family Colubridae. They...
