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Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute, the Thai Red Cross Society Afternoon educational snake show, a popular tourist draw. The Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute (QSMI) (Thai: สถานเสาวภา; RTGS: Sathan Saowapha) in Bangkok, Thailand, is an institute that specialises in the husbandry of venomous snakes, the extraction and research of snake venom, and vaccines, especially rabies ...
This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note that the snakes are grouped by name, and in some cases the grouping may have no scientific basis. Contents:
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
Dendrelaphis nigroserratus (common name: sawtooth-necked bronzeback) is a species of snakes belonging to the bronzebacks (Dendrelaphis). It is found only in western and southwestern Thailand and the adjacent southeastern Myanmar. A specimen has been preserved in the British Natural History Museum, London since the early 20th century.
Although the name applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species, in particular, the common or green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), [citation needed] which is the largest snake in the world by weight, and the second longest after the reticulated python. [citation needed]
Common name Geographic range [3] Charina: Gray, 1849 2 0 rubber boas North America from western Canada south through the western United States into northwestern Mexico Eryx T: Daudin, 1803 13 2 Old World sand boas Southeastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia Lichanura: Cope, 1861 2 3 rosy boas
The snake elements were described as those of a novel, giant boid snake that they named Titanoboa cerrejonensis. The genus name derives from the Greek word "Titan" in addition to Boa, the type genus of the family Boidae. The species name is a reference to the Cerrejón region it is known from
Antaboga is a Javanese-origin name, derived or inherited from Anantabhoga in Old Javanese. According to the Balinese literatures, the term might possibly rooted from two Sanskrit words, namely Āṉanta (अनन्त, lit. ' apposite of Śeṣa, the Divine Snake ') and Bhoga (भोग, lit. ' coil ').