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This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note that the snakes are grouped by name, and in some cases the grouping may have no scientific basis. Contents:
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... This is a list of the scientific names of extant snakes. It includes 517 genera and 3,738 ...
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The forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca), also commonly called the black cobra and the black and white-lipped cobra, [4] is a species of highly venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to Africa , mostly the central and western parts of the continent. [ 5 ]
Small dark fossorial snake with flat indistinct head, and smooth scales. [1] Scarlet snake (Cemophora coccinea). Bright red, white, and black bands that do not extend around the belly. Black bands surround the white, touching the red. Tip of nose is red. [2] Black racer (Coluber constrictor). Adults are long, thin, and entirely black except for ...
The pine snake preys on rats, mice, moles and other small mammals and eggs. [6] It often enters rodent burrows in search of a meal. In these cases, multiple kills are frequent, with the snake pressing the mice against the walls of the burrow. [11] The snake remains underground in cold weather or during the heat of summer days. [1]
The bandy-bandy is a smooth-scaled, glossy snake with a distinctive pattern of sharply contrasting black and white rings that continue right around the body. Bandy-bandys are strikingly distinguishable from other Australian land snakes by their unique banding pattern, [ 3 ] which gives the species both its common names and its scientific name ...
The clarity of these markings is often blurred by small specks. The tail has two to eight (usually four to six) black bands separated by white or gray interspaces; this led to the nickname of "coontail", though other species (e.g., Mojave rattlesnake) have similarly banded tails. Its postocular stripe is gray or umber and extends diagonally ...