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11 0 hooded snakes (and curl snake) Australia Thalassophis: P. Schmidt, 1852 1 0 anomalous sea snake South Chinese Sea (Malaysia, Gulf of Thailand), Indian Ocean (Sumatra, Java, Borneo) Toxicocalamus: Boulenger, 1896 11 0 New Guinea forest snakes New Guinea (and nearby islands) Tropidechis: Günther, 1863 1 0 rough-scaled snake Eastern Australia
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.
Amphibians and reptiles make up another significant portion of the habitat. Snakes are a common reptile in the tall grass of the rainforest. As such, notable examples include the heaviest snake in the world, the green anaconda, the rainbow boa, and the bushmaster. [7]
Scientists working in the Amazon rainforest have discovered a new species of snake, ... (500 pounds). It measured 8.43 meters long (27.7 feet) and 1.11 meters (3.6 feet) wide. While another ...
The western green mamba is a shy and agile snake that lives mainly in the coastal tropical rainforest, thicket, and woodland regions of western Africa. Its venom is a highly potent mixture of rapid-acting presynaptic and postsynaptic neurotoxins (dendrotoxins), cardiotoxins and fasciculins. Some consider this species not to be a particularly ...
It is a moderate-sized snake attaining a size of about 70 cm (28 in) in length. It is fossorial and is rarely seen. [ 5 ] It is reported to be ovoviviparous and feeds on beetles , caecilians (burrowing legless amphibians ), amphisbaenids or worm lizards (legless lizards ), small fossorial snakes , fish (particularly swamp eels ), and frogs . [ 6 ]
The new species, described in the journal Diversity, diverged from the previously known southern green anaconda about 10 million years ago, differing genetically from it by 5.5 per cent.
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... This is a list of the scientific names of extant snakes. It includes 517 genera and 3,738 species: [1]