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Pelamis platurus (yellow-bellied sea snake or pelagic sea snake) Praescutata viperina (viperine sea snake) Family Leptotyphlopidae (thread snakes) - 2 species Leptotyphlops blanfordii (Blanford's worm snake or Sind thread snake) Leptotyphlops macrorhynchus (long-nosed worm snake or beaked thread snake) Family Pythonidae (pythons) - 1 species
Named for the Comahue region, whose name means 'place of abundance', or perhaps 'where the water hurt', and Greek therium, meaning "beast". [citation needed] Conepatus chinga (Hog-nosed skunk) skunk: Nahuatl and Mapudungun: The genus name is most likely from conepatl, the Nahuatl name of the animal, ultimately meaning "burrower".
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The following is a list of tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of two identical words (the generic name and the specific name have the same spelling). Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ (though differences as small as one letter are permitted, as in cumin, Cuminum cyminum).
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
Shahmaran is a mythical creature, half-snake and half-woman, portrayed as a dual-headed creature with a crown on each head, possessing a human female head on one end, and a snake's head on the other, possibly representing a phallic figure. [3] The human part is also decorated with a large necklace. [4] [5]
The checkered keelback (Fowlea piscator), also known commonly as the Asiatic water snake, is a common species in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Asia . It is non-venomous.
The Homalopsidae are a family of snakes which contains about 30 genera and more than 50 species. They are commonly known as Indo-Australian water snakes, mudsnakes, or bockadams. They are also known as ular air (lit. "water snake") in Indonesian. They are typically stout-bodied water snakes, and all are mildly venomous.