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Approximate world distribution of snakes. There are about 3,900 species of snakes, [46] ranging as far northward as the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia and southward through Australia. [27] Snakes can be found on every continent except Antarctica, as well as in the sea, and as high as 16,000 feet (4,900 m) in the Himalayan Mountains of Asia.
This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. ... Banded Flying Snake; Fox snake, three species of Pantherophis; Forest flame snake; G. Garter snake.
Anacondas or water boas are a group of large boas of the genus Eunectes.They are a semiaquatic group of snakes found in tropical South America.Three to five extant and one extinct species are currently recognized, including one of the largest snakes in the world, E. murinus, the green anaconda.
This is a list of the scientific names of extant snakes. It includes 517 genera and 3,738 species: [1] Acanthophis Acanthophis antarcticus Acanthophis cryptamydros
Example Species Example Photo Acrochordidae Bonaparte, 1831: File snakes: Arafura file snake (Acrochordus arafurae) Aniliidae Stejneger, 1907: Coral pipe snakes: False coral snake (Anilius scytale) Anomochilidae Cundall, Wallach and Rossman, 1993: Dwarf pipe snakes: Leonard's pipe snake, (Anomochilus leonardi) Atractaspididae Günther, 1858 ...
Leonardo DiCaprio now has a new species of snake named in his honor!. Researchers first discovered the reptile in the western Himalayas in the summer of 2020, the Miami Herald reported, citing an ...
List of viperine species and subspecies; By other characteristics: List of dangerous snakes; List of largest snakes; By region: List of snakes of Jordan; List of snakes in North Macedonia; Snakes of Nigeria; List of snakes of Spain; List of snakes of Trinidad and Tobago; Category:Lists of snakes of the United States (lists by U.S. state)
A video shared online shows the scale of these 20-foot-long (6.1-meter-long) reptiles as one of the researchers, Dutch biologist Freek Vonk, swims alongside a giant 200-kilo (441-pound) specimen.