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The longest venomous snake is the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah), with lengths (recorded in captivity) of up to 5.7 m (19 ft) and a weight of up to 12.7 kg (28 lb). [53] It is also the largest elapid. The second-longest venomous snake in the world is possibly the African black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), which
Africa's largest snake species [6] [7] and one of the world's largest, [4] the Central African rock python adult measures 3 to 3.53 m (9 ft 10 in to 11 ft 7 in) in total length (including tail), with only unusually large specimens likely to exceed 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in). Reports of specimens over 6 m (19 ft 8 in) are considered reliable, although ...
Anomochilus monticola, the Kinabalu giant blind snake, [3] mountain pipe snake, [4] or Mount Kinabalu dwarf pipesnake, [5] is a species of snake in the dwarf pipesnake family Anomochilidae. It is endemic to Kinabalu Park in northern Borneo , where it inhabits montane and submontane rainforest at altitudes of 1,450–1,513 m (4,757–4,964 ft).
In 2017, the body of a palm fruit farmer in Indonesia was found inside a 23-foot-long python. What follows isn’t a strict rundown of the largest snakes ever recorded, as that would mostly ...
This list of snakes of Africa includes all snakes in the continent of Africa. Philothamnus natalensis; Echis megalocephalus; Echis leucogaster [1] Roman's carpet ...
105 species of lizards, in 35 genera from 9 families, are now known from Borneo. The reticulated python is the largest python in the world, and the longest snake in the world. This reptile can have a size of 6 metres (20 ft) or more. The longer snakes have a size of 10 metres (33 ft).
Snakes range greatly in size. The world longest snake is the reticulated python. The longest ever found in the species measured a whopping 32 feet, 9.5 inches long.
The word anaconda is derived from the name of a snake from Ceylon that John Ray described in Latin in his Synopsis Methodica Animalium (1693) as serpens indicus bubalinus anacandaia zeylonibus, ides bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens. [7] Ray used a catalogue of snakes from the Leyden museum supplied by Dr. Tancred Robinson.