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Colubridae

Index Colubridae

Colubridae (from Latin coluber, snake) is a family of snakes. [1]

253 relations: Adelophis, Adelphicos, Aeluroglena, Afronatrix, Ahaetulla, Ahaetullinae, Alsophis, Amnesteophis, Amphiesma, Anoplohydrus aemulans, Antarctica, Apostolepis, Archelaphe, Arctotis, Argyrogena, Arizona, Arrhyton, Aspidura, Atractaspidinae, Atractaspis, Atractus, Atretium, Balanophis, Blyth's reticulated snake, Bogertophis, Boiga, Boiruna, Boomslang, Borikenophis, Calamaria, Calamariinae, Calamodontophis, Calamorhabdium, Cameroon racer, Carphophis, Caspian whipsnake, Cemophora, Chapinophis, Chersodromus, Chilomeniscus, Chionactis, Chironius, Chrysopelea, Clade, Coelognathus, Collorhabdium, Coluber, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Common garter snake, ..., Coniophanes, Conophis, Conopsis, Contia (snake), Coronella, Crotaphopeltis, Cubophis, Cyclophiops, Dark wolf snake, Dasypeltis, Dendrelaphis, Dendrophidion, Diaphorolepis, Dipsadinae, Dipsadoboa, Dipsas, Dolichophis, Dolichophis jugularis, Drepanoides, Drymarchon, Drymobius, Drymoluber, Dryocalamus, Dryophiops, Echinanthera, Eirenis, Elaphe, Elapidae, Elapomorphus, Emmochliophis, Enulius, Erythrolamprus, Etheridgeum, Euprepiophis, Family (biology), Farancia, Ficimia, Garter snake, Genus, Geophis, Gongylosoma, Gonyosoma, Grayia (snake), Gyalopion, Haldea striatula, Hapsidophrys, Hebius, Helicops (genus), Hemerophis, Hemorrhois, Heterodon, Hierophis, Homalopsidae, Hydrablabes, Hydraethiops, Hydrodynastes, Hydromorphus, Hydrops (genus), Hypsiglena, Hypsirhynchus, Ialtris, Imantodes, Incertae sedis, Indian egg-eating snake, Kingsnake, Kirtland's snake, Lamprophiidae, Lamprophiinae, Latin, Leptodeira, Leptodrymus, Leptophis, Limnophis, Liopeltis, Long-nosed snake, Lycodon, Lygophis, Lytorhynchus, Macrocalamus, Macropisthodon, Macroprotodon, Magliophis, Masticophis, Mastigodryas, Meizodon, Mexican night snake, Monophyly, Muhtarophis, Mussurana, Natricinae, Natriciteres, Natrix, Nerodia, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Ninia, Oligocene, Oligodon, Omoadiphas, Oocatochus, Opheodrys, Opisthotropis, Oreocryptophis porphyraceus, Oxybelis, Oxyrhopus, Pantherophis, Paraphimophis, Pareidae, Phalotris, Philodryas, Philothamnus, Phimophis, Phrynonax, Phyllorhynchus, Pituophis, Plagiopholis, Platyceps, Pliocercus, Psammophiinae, Pseudalsophis, Pseudaspidinae, Pseudoboa, Pseudoeryx, Pseudoficimia, Pseudorabdion, Pseudoxenodon, Pseudoxenodontinae, Pseudoxyrhophiinae, Psomophis, Ptyas, Rabdion, Regina (genus), Rhabdophis, Rhachidelus, Rhadinaea, Rhadinella, Rhamnophis, Rhinobothryum, Rhynchocalamus, Ring-necked snake, Rustyhead snake, Salvadora (snake), Saphenophis, Scaphiodontophis, Scaphiophis, Scolecophis, Senticolis, Sheltopusik, Sibon, Sibon longifrenis, Sibynomorphus, Sibynophiinae, Sibynophis, Simophis, Sinonatrix, Siphlophis, Slender racer, Snake, Snake skeleton, Sonora, Sordellina, Spalerosophis, Spatula-toothed snake, Species, Spilotes, Stenorrhina, Storeria, Symphimus, Sympholis, Synophis, Tachymenis, Taeniophallus, Tantilla, Tantillita, Telescopus, Thamnodynastes, Thermophis, Thrasops, Tomodon, Toxicodryas, Trachischium, Tretanorhinus, Trimetopon, Trimorphodon, Tropidoclonion, Tropidodipsas, Tropidodryas, Tropidonophis, Twig snake, Uromacer, Urotheca, Venom, Viperidae, Virginia (genus), Wallaceophis, Wastebasket taxon, Xenelaphis, Xenochrophis, Xenodermidae, Xenodon, Xenodontinae, Xenopholis, Xyelodontophis, Zamenis. Expand index (203 more) »

Adelophis

Adelophis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Adelphicos

The genus Adelphicos consists of six species of New World burrowing snakes.

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Aeluroglena

Aeluroglena is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Aeluroglena cucullata.

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Afronatrix

Afronatrix is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Afronatrix anoscopus.

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Ahaetulla

Ahaetulla is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as vine snakes, or whip snakes.

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Ahaetullinae

The Ahaetullinae are a subfamily of the snake family Colubridae that was erected in 2016 to house 4 genera containing 56 species (Ahaetulla, Chrysopelea, Dendrelaphis, and Dryophiops) that are more closely related to one another than to members of the subfamily Colubrinae.

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Alsophis

Alsophis is a genus of snakes in the Colubroid Dipsadidae family.

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Amnesteophis

Amnesteophis is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Amnesteophis melanauchen.

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Amphiesma

Amphiesma is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly known as keelbacks because of their keeled dorsal scales.

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Anoplohydrus aemulans

Anoplohydrus is a genus of snake in the family Natricidae that contains the sole species Anoplohydrus aemulans.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Apostolepis

Apostolepis is a genus of snakes in the family Dipsadidae.

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Archelaphe

Archelaphe is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Archelaphe bella.

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Arctotis

Arctotis is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the family Asteraceae.

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Argyrogena

Argyrogena fasciolata, the banded racer, is a species of colubrid snake, the only species in the genus Argyrogena.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Arrhyton

Arrhyton is a genus of New World colubrid snakes, with 8 described species, commonly known as island racers or racerlets.

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Aspidura

Aspidura is a genus of the Colubridae family of snakes that is endemic to island of Sri Lanka which is commonly known as rough-sided snake, and as මැඩිල්ලා (maedilla) in Sinhala.

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Atractaspidinae

The Atractaspidinae are a family of snakes found in Africa and the Middle East, commonly called mole vipers, stiletto snakes, or burrowing asps.

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Atractaspis

Atractaspis is a genus of venomous snakes found in Africa.

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Atractus

Atractus is a genus of colubrid ground snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae (or family Dipsadidae).

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Atretium

Atretium is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Balanophis

Balanophis is a monotypic genus of the Colubridae family of snakes with the species Balanophis ceylonensis.

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Blyth's reticulated snake

Blythia reticulata, commonly known as Blyth's reticulate snake, Blyth's reticulated snake, or the iridescent snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.

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Bogertophis

Bogertophis is a genus of New World rat snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Boiga

Boiga is a large genus of mildly venomous, opisthoglyphous or rear-fanged, colubrid snakes typically known as the cat-eyed snakes or just cat snakes.

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Boiruna

Boiruna is a genus of snakes of the family Dipsadidae.

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Boomslang

The boomslang (or; Dispholidus typus) is a large, venomous snake in the family Colubridae.

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Borikenophis

Borikenophis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Calamaria

Calamaria is a large genus of dwarf burrowing snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Calamariinae

The Calamariinae are a subfamily of colubrid snakes, commonly known as reed snakes, that are found in southern and southeastern Asia.

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Calamodontophis

Calamodontophis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Calamorhabdium

Calamorhabdium is a small genus of colubrid snakes known as iridescent snakes.

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Cameroon racer

The Cameroon racer, Poecilopholis cameronensis, is a species of fangless venomous snake endemic to Africa.

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Carphophis

Carphophis (common name worm snakes) is a genus of small colubrid snakes endemic to the United States.

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Caspian whipsnake

The Caspian whipsnake (Dolichophis caspius, sometimes also Coluber caspius) also known as the large whipsnake (among various other species in genus Dolichophis/Coluber), is a common species of whipsnake found in the Balkans and parts of Eastern Europe.

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Cemophora

Cemophora coccinea, commonly known as the scarlet snake, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae.

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Chapinophis

Chapinophis xanthocheilus is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.

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Chersodromus

Chersodromus is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Chilomeniscus

Chilomeniscus is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Chionactis

Chionactis is a genus of snakes known as the shovelnose (or shovel-nosed) snakes.

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Chironius

Chironius is a genus of New World colubrid snakes, commonly called sipos (from the Portuguese word cipó for liana), savanes, or sometimes vine snakes.

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Chrysopelea

Chrysopelea, more commonly known as the flying snake or gliding snake, is a genus that belongs to the family Colubridae.

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Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

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Coelognathus

Coelognathus is a genus of five ratsnakes from South and South East Asia that were formerly assigned to the genus Elaphe.

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Collorhabdium

Collorhabdium is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Collorhabdium williamsoni.

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Coluber

Coluber is a genus of thin-bodied, fast-moving, colubrid snakes commonly known as racers.

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Colubrinae

The Colubrinae are a subfamily of the family Colubridae of snakes.

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Colubroidea

The Colubroidea are a superfamily in the suborder Serpentes (snakes).

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Common garter snake

The common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) is a species of natricine snake, which is indigenous to North America and found widely across the continent.

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Coniophanes

Coniophanes is a genus of colubrid snakes, typically referred to as black-striped snakes, but they also have many other common names.

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Conophis

Conophis is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Conopsis

Conopsis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Contia (snake)

Contia is a small genus of colubrid snakes endemic to North America.

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Coronella

Coronella is a genus of harmless colubrids found in Europe, North Africa and West Asia.

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Crotaphopeltis

Crotaphopeltis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Cubophis

Cubophis is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Cyclophiops

Cyclophiops is a genus of colubrid snakes (subfamily Colubrinae) commonly called green snakes.

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Dark wolf snake

Lepturophis is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Lepturophis albofuscus.

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Dasypeltis

Dasypeltis is a genus of colubrid snakes.

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Dendrelaphis

Dendrelaphis is a genus of colubrid snakes, distributed from Pakistan, India and southern China to Indonesia, Timor-Leste, the Philippines, Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

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Dendrophidion

Dendrophidion is a genus of New World colubrid snakes commonly referred to as forest racers.

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Diaphorolepis

Diaphorolepis is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Dipsadinae

Dipsadinae is a large subfamily of colubroid snakes, sometimes referred to as a family (Dipsadidae).

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Dipsadoboa

Dipsadoboa is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Dipsas

Dipsas is a genus of nonvenomous New World snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae.

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Dolichophis

Dolichophis is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Dolichophis jugularis

Dolichophis jugularis, the black whipsnake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.

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Drepanoides

Drepanoides is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Drepanoides anomalus.

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Drymarchon

Drymarchon is a genus of large nonvenomous colubrid snakes, commonly known as indigo snakes, endemic to the Southeastern United States, Central America, and South America.

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Drymobius

Drymobius is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as neotropical racers, which are endemic to the Americas.

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Drymoluber

Drymoluber is a genus of New World snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Dryocalamus

Dryocalamus is a genus of harmless colubrid snakes.

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Dryophiops

Dryophiops is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Echinanthera

Echinanthera is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Eirenis

Eirenis is a genus of Old World snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Elaphe

Elaphe is one of the main genera of the rat snakes, which are found in many regions of the northern hemisphere.

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Elapidae

The Elapidae (ἔλλοψ éllops, "sea-fish") are a family of venomous snakes found in the tropics and subtropics around the world, with terrestrial forms in Asia, Australia, Africa, North America, and South America as well as marine forms in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

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Elapomorphus

Elapomorphus is a genus of venomous snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Emmochliophis

Emmochliophis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Enulius

Enulius is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Erythrolamprus

Erythrolamprus is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly known as false coral snakes, native to Central America, and the northern part of South America.

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Etheridgeum

Etheridgeum is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae.

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Euprepiophis

Euprepiophis is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes, containing three species of Asian rat snakes which were formerly assigned to the genus Elaphe.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Farancia

Farancia is a genus of colubrid snakes.

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Ficimia

Ficimia is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly known as hooknose snakes or hook-nosed snakes, which are endemic to North America.

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Garter snake

Garter snake (in addition to ribbon snake) is a common name for the nearly harmless, small to medium-sized snakes belonging to the genus Thamnophis.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Geophis

Geophis is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae.

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Gongylosoma

Gongylosoma is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Gonyosoma

Gonyosoma is a genus of colubrid snakes.

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Grayia (snake)

Grayia is a genus of colubrid snakes endemic to tropical Africa, commonly referred to as African water snakes.

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Gyalopion

Gyalopion is a genus of small nonvenomous colubrid snakes.

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Haldea striatula

Haldea striatula (formerly Virginia striatula), commonly called the rough earth snake, is a species of nonvenomous natricine colubrid snake native to the southeastern United States.

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Hapsidophrys

Hapsidophrys is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Hebius

Hebius is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Helicops (genus)

Helicops is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Hemerophis

Hemerophis is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Hemerophis socotrae.

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Hemorrhois

Hemorrhois is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Heterodon

Heterodon is a genus of harmless colubrid snakes endemic to North America.

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Hierophis

Hierophis is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae.

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Homalopsidae

Common name: water snakes, Indo-Australian water snakes, mudsnakes, bockadam, ular air (Indonesian). The Homalopsidae are a family of snakes which contains about 28 genera and more than 50 species.

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Hydrablabes

Hydrablabes is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Hydraethiops

Hydraethiops is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Hydrodynastes

Hydrodynastes is a small genus of large colubrid snakes in the subfamily Xenodontinae.

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Hydromorphus

Hydromorphus is a genus of snakes in the family Dipsadidae.

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Hydrops (genus)

Hydrops is a genus of dipsadid snakes.

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Hypsiglena

Hypsiglena is a genus of small, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes commonly referred to as night snakes.

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Hypsirhynchus

Hypsirhynchus is a genus of snakes of the family Dipsadidae.

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Ialtris

Ialtris is a genus of snakes of the family Dipsadidae.

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Imantodes

Imantodes is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as blunt-headed vine snakes or blunt-headed tree snakes.

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Incertae sedis

Incertae sedis (Latin for "of uncertain placement") is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.

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Indian egg-eating snake

The Indian egg-eating snake or Indian egg-eater (Elachistodon westermanni) is a rare species of egg-eating snake found in the Indian subcontinent.

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Kingsnake

Kingsnakes are colubrid New World constrictors, members of the genus Lampropeltis, which include milk snakes and four other species.

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Kirtland's snake

Kirtland's snake (Clonophis kirtlandii) is an endangered North American species of nonvenomous snake of the subfamily Natricinae, of the family Colubridae.

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Lamprophiidae

The Lamprophiidae are a family of snakes found mostly in Africa, but also in parts of southern Europe and western Asia.

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Lamprophiinae

Lamprophiinae is a subfamily of lamprophiid snakes, a large group of mostly African snakes most of which were formerly classified as colubrids but which we now know are actually more closely related to elapids.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leptodeira

Leptodeira is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as cat-eyed snakes.

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Leptodrymus

Leptodrymus is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Leptodrymus pulcherrimus.

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Leptophis

Leptophis is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly known as parrot snakes, which are endemic to the Americas.

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Limnophis

Limnophis is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Liopeltis

Liopeltis is a genus of colubrid snakes.

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Long-nosed snake

The long-nosed snake, Rhinocheilus lecontei, is a species of nonvenomous colubrid snake, which is endemic to North America.

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Lycodon

Lycodon is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly known as wolf snakes.

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Lygophis

Lygophis is a genus of snakes of the family Dipsadidae.

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Lytorhynchus

Lytorhynchus is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Macrocalamus

Macrocalamus is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Macropisthodon

Macropisthodon is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Macroprotodon

Macroprotodon is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Magliophis

Magliophis is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Masticophis

Masticophis is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly referred to as whip snakes or coachwhips, which are endemic to the Americas.

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Mastigodryas

Mastigodryas is a genus of colubrid snakes.

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Meizodon

Meizodon is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Colubrinae.

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Mexican night snake

Pseudelaphe is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Pseudelaphe flavirufa.

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Monophyly

In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.

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Muhtarophis

Muhtarophis is a monotypic genus of snakes in the subfamily Colubrinae.

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Mussurana

The mussurana or musurana (Portuguese muçurana) is a genus (Clelia) of colubrid snakes found in Central America and South America, from Guatemala to Brazil.

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Natricinae

The Natricinae are a subfamily of the Colubridae family of snakes, which comprises 28 genera.

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Natriciteres

Natriciteres is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Natrix

Natrix is a genus of colubrid snakes.

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Nerodia

Nerodia is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes commonly referred to as water snakes due to their aquatic behavior.

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Nicolaus Michael Oppel

Nicolaus Michael Oppel (December 7, 1782 in Schönficht – February 16, 1820 in Munich) was a German naturalist.

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Ninia

Ninia is a genus of colubroid snakes commonly referred to as coffee snakes.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Oligodon

Oligodon is genus of colubrid snakes that was first described by the Austrian zoologist Fitzinger in 1826.

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Omoadiphas

Omoadiphas is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Oocatochus

Oocatochus is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Oocatochus rufodorsatus.

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Opheodrys

Opheodrys is a genus of small to medium-sized non-venomous colubrid snakes commonly referred to as green snakes.

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Opisthotropis

Opisthotropis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Oreocryptophis porphyraceus

Oreocryptophis porphyraceus is a rat snake species, commonly called the black-banded trinket snake, red bamboo snake or red mountain racer, found in mid to upper-level elevations of forested hills in southeastern Asia, ranging from evergreen tropical to dry seasonal forests depending on the subspecies and locality.

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Oxybelis

Oxybelis is a genus of colubrid snakes, endemic to the Americas, which are commonly known as vine snakes.

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Oxyrhopus

Oxyrhopus is a genus of colubrid snakes that belong to the subfamily Xenodontinae.

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Pantherophis

Pantherophis is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes endemic to North America and Central America, commonly called ratsnakes or rat snakes.

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Paraphimophis

Paraphimophis is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Paraphimophis rusticus.

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Pareidae

Pareidae is a small family of snakes found in southeast Asia.

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Phalotris

Phalotris is a genus of snakes of the family Dipsadidae.

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Philodryas

Philodryas is a genus of colubrid snakes endemic to South America, commonly called green snakes.

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Philothamnus

Philothamnus is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Phimophis

Phimophis is a genus of snakes in the family Dipsadidae.

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Phrynonax

Phrynonax is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Phyllorhynchus

Phyllorhynchus is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Pituophis

Pituophis is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes commonly referred to as gopher snakes, pine snakes, and bull snakes, which are endemic to North America.

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Plagiopholis

Plagiopholis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Platyceps

Platyceps is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Pliocercus

Pliocercus is a genus of snakes in the family Dipsadidae.

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Psammophiinae

Psammophiinae is a subfamily of lamprophiid snakes.

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Pseudalsophis

Pseudalsophis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Pseudaspidinae

Pseudaspidinae is a small subfamily of lamprophiid snakes.

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Pseudoboa

Pseudoboa is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Pseudoeryx

Pseudoeryx is a genus of snakes of the family Dipsadidae.

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Pseudoficimia

Pseudoficimia is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Pseudoficimia frontalis.

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Pseudorabdion

Pseudorabdion is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Pseudoxenodon

Pseudoxenodon is a genus of snakes of the subfamily Pseudoxenodontinae.

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Pseudoxenodontinae

Pseudoxenodontinae is a small subfamily of colubrid snakes found in southern and southeastern Asia, from northeast India to southern China (including Taiwan) and south into Indonesia as far east as Wallace's Line.

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Pseudoxyrhophiinae

The Pseudoxyrhophiinae are a subfamily of lamprophiid snakes, found mostly in Madagascar.

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Psomophis

Psomophis is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Ptyas

Ptyas is a genus of colubrid snakes.

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Rabdion

Rabdion is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Regina (genus)

Regina is a genus of semiaquatic colubrid snakes known as crayfish snakes, named after their primary choice of diet.

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Rhabdophis

Rhabdophis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Rhachidelus

Rhachidelus is a genus of snake in the family Dipsadidae.

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Rhadinaea

Rhadinaea is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Rhadinella

Rhadinella is a genus of snakes of the family Dipsadidae.

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Rhamnophis

Rhamnophis is a genus of arboreal snakes, commonly known as dagger-tooth tree snakes or large-eyed tree snakes, in the family Colubridae.

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Rhinobothryum

Rhinobothryum is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Rhynchocalamus

Rhynchocalamus is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Ring-necked snake

Diadophis punctatus, commonly known as the ring-necked snake or ringneck snake, is a harmless species of colubrid snake found throughout much of the United States, central Mexico, and southeastern Canada.

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Rustyhead snake

The rustyhead snake (Amastridium veliferum) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.

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Salvadora (snake)

Salvadora is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly called patchnose snakes or patch-nosed snakes, which are endemic to the western United States and Mexico.

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Saphenophis

Saphenophis is a genus of snakes of the family Dipsadidae.

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Scaphiodontophis

Scaphiodontophis is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Scaphiophis

Scaphiophis is a genus of African snakes.

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Scolecophis

Scolecophis is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Scolecophis atrocinctus.

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Senticolis

Senticolis is a genus of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae.

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Sheltopusik

The sheltopusik (Pseudopus apodus), also commonly called Pallas' glass lizard or the European legless lizard, is a species of large glass lizard found from southern Europe to Central Asia.

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Sibon

Sibon (سيبن, also Romanized as Sībon; also known as Sībon-e Bālā, Sībon-e ‘Olyā, and Sībūn) is a village in Khorgam Rural District, Khorgam District, Rudbar County, Gilan Province, Iran.

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Sibon longifrenis

Sibon longifrenis is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.

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Sibynomorphus

Sibynomorphus is a genus of snakes of the family Dipsadidae.

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Sibynophiinae

Sibynophiinae is a small subfamily of colubrid snakes commonly called hinged-teeth snakes.

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Sibynophis

Sibynophis is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly called many-toothed snakes, which together with Scaphiodontophis make up the subfamily Sibynophiinae.

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Simophis

Simophis is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Simophis rhinostoma.

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Sinonatrix

Sinonatrix is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Siphlophis

Siphlophis is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Slender racer

The Slender racer (Orientocoluber spinalis) is a species of snake of the family Colubridae.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Snake skeleton

A snake skeleton consists primarily of the skull, vertebrae, and ribs, with only vestigial remnants of the limbs.

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Sonora

Sonora, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Sonora (Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora), is one of 31 states that, with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of United Mexican States.

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Sordellina

Sordellina is a genus of the Colubridae family of snakes.

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Spalerosophis

Spalerosophis is a small genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Spatula-toothed snake

The spatula-toothed snake (Iguanognathus werneri) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Spilotes

Spilotes is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Stenorrhina

Stenorrhina is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Storeria

Storeria is a genus of colubrid snakes, endemic to North America and Central America.

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Symphimus

Symphimus is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Sympholis

Sympholis is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Sympholis lippiens.

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Synophis

Synophis is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Tachymenis

Tachymenis is a genus of venomous snakes belonging to the family Colubridae.

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Taeniophallus

Taeniophallus is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Tantilla

Tantilla is a large genus of harmless New World colubrid snakes which includes 64 species commonly known as centipede snakes, blackhead snakes, and flathead snakes.

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Tantillita

Tantillita is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Telescopus

Telescopus, the Old World catsnakes, is a genus of 12 species of mildly venomous opisthoglyphous snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Thamnodynastes

Thamnodynastes is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Thermophis

Thermophis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Thrasops

Thrasops is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Tomodon

Tomodon is a genus of colubrid snakes, which are endemic to South America.

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Toxicodryas

Toxicodryas is a genus of rear-fanged venomous snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Trachischium

Trachischium is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly known as worm-eating snakes.

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Tretanorhinus

Tretanorhinus is a genus of snakes of the subfamily Dipsadinae.

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Trimetopon

Trimetopon is a genus of colubrid snakes, which are endemic to Costa Rica.

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Trimorphodon

Trimorphodon is a genus of mildly venomous, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes.

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Tropidoclonion

Tropidoclonion is a genus of small colubrid snakes, commonly known as lined snakes, which are endemic to North America.

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Tropidodipsas

Tropidodipsas is a genus of New World snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Tropidodryas

Tropidodryas is a genus of snakes of the family Dipsadidae.

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Tropidonophis

Tropidonophis is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Twig snake

The twig snakes (genus Thelotornis), also commonly known as bird snakes or vine snakes, are a genus of rear-fanged snakes in the family Colubridae, native to Africa.

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Uromacer

Uromacer is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

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Urotheca

Urotheca is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Venom

Venomous Animals Venom is a form of toxin secreted by an animal for the purpose of causing harm to another.

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Viperidae

The Viperidae (vipers) is a family of venomous snakes found in most parts of the world, excluding Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar, Hawaii, various other isolated islands, and north of the Arctic Circle.

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Virginia (genus)

Virginia is a genus of small, terrestrial, colubrid snakes, native to the United States.

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Wallaceophis

Wallaceophis is a genus of snake in the family Colubriadae.

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Wastebasket taxon

Wastebasket taxon (also called a wastebin taxon, dustbin taxon or catch-all taxon) is a term used by some taxonomists to refer to a taxon that has the sole purpose of classifying organisms that do not fit anywhere else.

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Xenelaphis

Xenelaphis is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Xenochrophis

Xenochrophis is a genus of colubrid snakes endemic to Asia.

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Xenodermidae

Xenodermidae is a family of snakes from South, Southeast, and East Asia.

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Xenodon

Xenodon is a genus of snakes of the family Dipsadidae.

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Xenodontinae

Xenodontinae is a subfamily of snakes in the family Dipsadidae.

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Xenopholis

Xenopholis is a genus of rear-fanged snakes of the family Colubridae.

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Xyelodontophis

Xyelodontophis is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae that contains the sole species Xyelodontophis uluguruensis.

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Zamenis

Zamenis is a genus of nonvenomous Old World snakes in the Colubridae family.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colubridae

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