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The longest venomous snake, with a length up to 18.5–18.8 ft (5.6–5.7 m), is the king cobra, [ 1] while contesters for the heaviest title include the Gaboon viper and the Eastern diamondback rattlesnake. All of these three species reach a maximum mass in the range of 6–20 kg (13–44 lb).
Reticulated python. The reticulated python ( Malayopython reticulatus) is a python species native to South and Southeast Asia. It is the world's longest snake, and the third heaviest after the green anaconda and Burmese python. It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List because of its wide distribution.
Ring-necked snake. Diadophis punctatus, commonly known as the ring-necked snake or ringneck snake, is a rather small, harmless species of colubrid snake found throughout much of the United States, as well as south in Central Mexico and as far north as Quebec, Canada. Ring-necked snakes are generally fossorial and somewhat secretive, by nature ...
The eastern brown snake ( Pseudonaja textilis ), often referred to as the common brown snake, is a species of extremely venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to eastern and central Australia and southern New Guinea. It was first described by André Marie Constant Duméril, Gabriel Bibron, and Auguste Duméril in 1854.
This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. ... Eastern hognose snake; Jan's hognose snake; Giant Malagasy hognose snake; Mexican hognose snake;
Draco Oken, 1816. 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. [ 3][ 4][ 5]
The eastern worm snake ( Carphophis amoenus amoenus) is a subspecies of the worm snake, Carphophis amoenus, [ 1] a nonvenomous colubrid endemic to the Eastern Woodlands region of North America. [ 2] The species' range extends from southwest Massachusetts, south to southern Alabama, west to Louisiana and north to Illinois. [ 3]
The common watersnake can grow up to 135 cm (4 ft 5 in) in total length (including tail). [6] Per one study, the average total length of females was 81.4 cm (2 ft 8 in), while that of males was 69.6 cm (2 ft in). [7] From known studies of this species in the wild, adult females can weigh between 159 and 408 g ( and oz) typically, while the ...