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The long-nosed snake is distinguished by a long, slightly upturned snout, which is the origin of its common name. It is tricolor, vaguely resembling a coral snake, with black and red saddling on a yellow or cream-colored background. Cream-colored spots within the black saddles are a distinct characteristic of the long-nosed snake.
The Texas long-nosed snake is a tricolor subspecies. Its color pattern consists of a cream-colored or white body, overlaid with black blotches, with red between the black. This color pattern gives it an appearance vaguely similar to that of a venomous coral snake, Micrurus tener or Micruroides euryxanthus. It has an elongated snout, to which ...
3 Habitat. 4 Description. Toggle Description subsection. ... Ahaetulla nasuta, also known as Sri Lankan green vine snake and long-nosed whip snake, is a venomous, ...
Common names for D. acutus include sharp-nosed viper, snorkel viper, hundred pacer, [8] Chinese moccasin, [9] Chinese copperhead, [10] five-pacer, hundred-pace snake, long-nosed pit viper, sharp-nosed pit viper, [11] hundred-pace pit viper. [12] The snake has been an object of veneration by indigenous Taiwanese peoples.
By comparison, the largest extant snakes are the reticulated python, measuring about 6.95 m (22.8 ft) long, [7] and the green anaconda, which measures about 5.21 m (17.1 ft) long and is considered the heaviest snake on Earth at 97.5 kg (215 lb).
The rhinoceros ratsnake inhabits subtropical rainforests at elevations between 300 and 1,100 m (980 and 3,610 ft), particularly valleys with streams. It is generally arboreal, and mostly diurnal, hunting small mice and other rodents, birds, and perhaps other vertebrate prey.
Eastern Coral Snake: These are found in a wide variety of habitats including wooded areas, fields and pond margins. They have red, yellow and black rings encircling their bodies. They have red ...
Langaha madagascariensis (formerly Langaha nasuta, commonly known as the Madagascar or Malagasy leaf-nosed snake) is a medium-sized non-venomous highly cryptic arboreal species. It is endemic to Madagascar and found in deciduous dry forests and rain forests, often in vegetation 1.5 to 2 meters above the ground.