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  2. Anaconda - Wikipedia

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    The description of its habit was based on Andreas Cleyer, who in 1684 described a gigantic snake that crushed large animals by coiling around their bodies and crushing their bones. [8] Henry Yule in his 1886 work Hobson-Jobson , notes that the word became more popular due to a piece of fiction published in 1768 in the Scots Magazine by a ...

  3. Snake - Wikipedia

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    The snake returns in the Book of Exodus when Moses turns his staff into a snake as a sign of God's power, and later when he makes the Nehushtan, a bronze snake on a pole that when looked at cured the people of bites from the snakes that plagued them in the desert.

  4. List of snakes by common name - Wikipedia

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    Cat-eyed snake. Banded cat-eyed snake; Green cat-eyed snake; Cat snake. Andaman cat snake; Beddome's cat snake; Dog-toothed cat snake; Forsten's cat snake; Gold-ringed cat snake; Gray cat snake; Many-spotted cat snake; Nicobar cat snake; Sri Lanka cat snake; Tawny cat snake; Chicken snake; Coachwhip snake; Cobra. Andaman cobra; Arabian cobra ...

  5. Common watersnake - Wikipedia

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    The common watersnake (Nerodia sipedon) [4] is a species of large, nonvenomous, common snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to North America. The species is native to North America. It is frequently mistaken for the venomous cottonmouth ( Agkistrodon piscivorus ).

  6. List of Serpentes families - Wikipedia

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    Sunbeam snake (Xenopeltis unicolor) Scolecophidia 3 families Family Common Names Example Species Example Photo Anomalepidae Taylor, 1939: Dawn blind snakes: Dawn blind snake (Liotyphlops beui) Leptotyphlopidae Stejneger, 1892: Slender blind snakes: Texas blind snake (Leptotyphlops dulcis) Typhlopidae Merrem, 1820: Blind snakes

  7. Children's python - Wikipedia

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    Children's python (Antaresia childreni) is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Pythonidae.The species is named after John George Children.It is a nocturnal species occurring in the northern half of Australia and generally found on the ground, although it often climbs trees.

  8. The hatching of the 107th tiny, wriggling snake at a Tennessee zoo marks the end of another year of efforts to save one of North America’s rarest snakes from extinction.

  9. Desert kingsnake - Wikipedia

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    The snake's glossy dorsum is black or very dark brown colored, finely speckled with off-white or yellow. These pale flecks form dimly defined narrow vertebral crossbands, between which the intervening rectangular areas are black. Pale yellow scales may predominate along the lower sides.