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Deinagkistrodon acutus venom has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries to extract antivenin that is successfully used to treat snakebites. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Different parts of the snake are also prescribed to help alleviate ailments known as "wind diseases". [ 21 ]
Snake plants are the ultimate low-maintenance roommates, even when it comes to their living quarters. “Snake plants grown in sandy soil can be repotted every two to three years.
The snake has 127-157 ventral scales and 36-71 subcaudals. Of the latter, some may be divided. The anal scale is single. All have a color pattern of 10-20 dark crossbands on a lighter ground color, although sometimes the crossbands are staggered as half bands on either side of the body. [7] The phylogeny of the species has long been controversial.
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This snake was found on the edge of a creek in Oklahoma. Agkistrodon piscivorus is a species of venomous snake , a pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae . It is one of the world's few semiaquatic vipers (along with the Florida cottonmouth ), and is native to the Southeastern United States . [ 5 ]
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Nerodia clarkii, commonly known as the salt marsh snake, is a species of semi-aquatic, nonvenomous, colubrid snake found in the southeastern United States. Their range extends along the brackish salt marshes of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Coast from Texas to Florida , with an additional population in northern Cuba . [ 2 ]
The sharp-tailed snake or sharptail snake (Contia tenuis) is a small species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to the Western United States and British Columbia .