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Terrestrial snake data based on Ernst (2011) [1] and Cogger et al. (1998); ... This world map was created with Inkscape, or with something else.
• The green anaconda is the largest (most massive) extant snake. The silhouette is scaled to 5.21 metres (17.1 ft) which was the longest measured and published in a study by Jesús Antonio Rivas that measured hundreds of anacondas. [2] There are reports of longer anacondas, but these reports have been questioned. [3] [4] [5]
A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe. London: Collins. 272 pp. + Plates 1-40. ISBN 0-00-219318-3. (Elaphe longissima, pp. 199–200 + Plate 36 + Map 112 on p. 266). Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ.
Among the colubrids, the most diverse snake family, the largest snakes may be the keeled rat snake (Ptyas carinata) at up to 4 m (13 ft). [76] The genus Drymarchon also contains some of the largest colubrids such as the eastern indigo snake ( Drymarchon couperi) and the indigo snake ( Drymarchon corais ) which can both reach lengths of almost 3 ...
Four-lined snake, Elaphe quatuorlineata NT (south-eastern Europe) Blotched snake, Elaphe sauromates (eastern and south-eastern Europe) and: [n 1] Urartian rat snake, Elaphe urartica (eastern Europe) [3] Steppes ratsnake, Elaphe dione (Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan) Beauty snake, Elaphe taeniura [4] VU (Introduced to Belgium and Netherlands)
Pretty much all of the really impressive “biggest snakes in the world”—the 50-footers and up—live online or in Hollywood. In 2017, the body of a palm fruit farmer in Indonesia was found ...
A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...
The Boidae, commonly known as boas or boids, [3] are a family of nonvenomous snakes primarily found in the Americas, as well as Africa, Europe, Asia, and some Pacific islands. Boas include some of the world's largest snakes, with the green anaconda of South America being the heaviest and second-longest snake known; in general, adults are medium ...