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Serpentes Snakes

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Kinds

Acrochordidae -- File Snakes Aniliidae -- Pipe Snakes Anomalepidae -- Dawn Blind Snakes Anomochilidae -- Dwarf pipe snakes Atractaspididae -- Mole vipers Boidae -- Boas Bolyeridae -- Round Island Boas Colubridae -- Colubrids Cylindrophiidae -- Asian Pipe Snakes Elapidae -- Cobras Hydrophiidae -- Sea Snakes Ilysiidae -- Pipe Snakes Leptotyphlopidae -- Slender Blind Snakes Loxocemidae -- Mexican Burrowing Pythons Tropidophiidae -- Woodsnakes Typhlopidae -- Blind Snakes Uropeltidae -- Short-tail Snakes Viperidae -- Vipers Xenopeltidae -- Sunbeam Snakes

Families

Families Common Names Colubridae colubrid snakes Elapidae coral snakes Viperidae pit vipers

Phylogeny

Taxonomic Category Scientific Name Common Name Phylum Chordata Chordates Class Reptilia Reptiles Order Squamata Lizards & snakes Suborder Serpentes Snakes

Photographs

Calphotos -- over 5,000 images of animals, primarily Californian species

Links to other sites

Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles Center for North American Herpetology Savannah River Ecology Laboratory Herpetology Program University of Georgia Natural History Museum -- snakes South Carolina Reptiles and Amphibians Snakes of Virginia

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