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In: Flower SS (1899). "Notes on a Second Collection of Reptiles made in the Malay Peninsula and Siam, from November 1896 to September 1898, with a List of the Species recorded from those Countries". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899: 600–696. (Typhlops floweri, new species, p. 654 + Plate XXXVII, figure 2).
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 ...
While any snake exhibiting the coral snake's color and/or banding pattern in the southeastern United States will almost certainly, in fact, be a coral snake, there are coral snakes in other parts of the world that are colored differently. [4] Coral snakes in the United States are most notable for their red, yellow/white, and black-colored banding.
It was first given to a young male bite victim in New Guinea in 1959, who became the first documented survivor of a Papuan black snake attack. Slater was the only person milking snakes for the PNG Department of Agriculture. After he resigned in 1959, the department announced they would pay £3/foot for each Papuan black snake caught.
Micropechis ikaheca, commonly known as the New Guinea small-eyed snake or Ikaheka snake, is a highly venomous elapid, the only species in the genus Micropechis.The holotype was collected at Doré on the Vogelkop of Netherlands New Guinea, and described in 1829, by the naturalist on board the French Navy vessel La Coquille, ship's surgeon René Primevère Lesson, in a volume of the three-year ...
Fritillaria meleagris is a Eurasian species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae. [2] [3] [4] Its common names include snake's head fritillary, snake's head (the original English name), chess flower, frog-cup, guinea-hen flower, guinea flower, leper lily (because its shape resembled the bell once carried by lepers), Lazarus bell, chequered lily, chequered daffodil, drooping tulip or ...
Its flowers vary from greenish white to cream-colored — some are fragrant at night, others not at all — and have a sticky texture. [ 5 ] Dracaena trifasciata is commonly called " mother-in-law's tongue ", " Saint George 's sword" or "snake plant", because of the shape and sharp margins of its leaves [ 2 ] that resemble snakes.