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Aesculapian snake

Index Aesculapian snake

The Aesculapian snake (now Zamenis longissimus, previously Elaphe longissima), is a species of nonvenomous snake native to Europe, a member of the Colubrinae subfamily of the family Colubridae. [1]

75 relations: Agriculture, Albinism, Anal scale, Ancient Rome, André Marie Constant Duméril, Asclepius, Atlantic (period), Auguste Duméril, Azerbaijan, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Bieszczady Mountains, Biogeography, Bowl of Hygieia, Bukovec Mountains, Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests, Cocullo, Colubridae, Colubrinae, Conwy, Dorsal scales, Ecotone, Erythrism, Europe, Family (biology), Forest steppe, Forestry, Four-lined snake, Gabriel Bibron, Garden City, New York, George Albert Boulenger, Glacial period, Grass snake, Great Britain, Greater Caucasus, Haplotype, Holocene, International College of Surgeons, Italian Aesculapian snake, Italy, IUCN Red List, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Karl Patterson Schmidt, Karlovy Vary, Latin, List of reptiles of Europe, List of reptiles of Italy, List of snake genera, Malpolon monspessulanus, Melanism, Monotypic taxon, ..., Mustelidae, Odenwald, Passau, Persian ratsnake, Pleistocene, Podyjí National Park, Raccoon dog, Regent's Park, Rod of Asclepius, Salzach, Schlangenbad, Smooth snake, Snake, Species, Subcaudal scales, Subfamily, Subspecies, Supralabial scale, Switzerland, Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest, Thermoregulation, Venomous snake, Ventral scales, Wales, Welsh Mountain Zoo. Expand index (25 more) »

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Albinism

Albinism in humans is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes.

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Anal scale

In snakes, the anal scale (or anal plate) is the scale just in front of and covering the cloacal opening.

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Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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André Marie Constant Duméril

André Marie Constant Duméril (January 1, 1774 – August 14, 1860) was a French zoologist.

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Asclepius

Asclepius (Ἀσκληπιός, Asklēpiós; Aesculapius) was a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology.

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Atlantic (period)

The Atlantic in palaeoclimatology was the warmest and moistest Blytt-Sernander period, pollen zone and chronozone of Holocene northern Europe.

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Auguste Duméril

Auguste Henri André Duméril (30 November 1812 – 12 November 1870) was a French zoologist.

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Azerbaijan

No description.

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Bernard Germain de Lacépède

Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède (26 December 17566 October 1825) was a French naturalist and an active freemason.

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Bieszczady Mountains

Bieszczady is a mountain range that runs from the extreme south-east of Poland through Ukraine and Slovakia.

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Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

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Bowl of Hygieia

Bowl of Hygieia is one of the symbols of pharmacy.

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Bukovec Mountains

The Bukovec Mountains (Slovak: Bukovské vrchy) is a flysch mountain range in north-eastern Slovakia, part of the Eastern Beskids and the Ukrainian Carpathians ranges belonging to the Eastern Carpathians.

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Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests

The Caspian Hyrcanian Mixed Forests ecoregion, in the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome, is an area of lush lowland and montane forests covering about near the southern shores of the Caspian Sea of Iran and Azerbaijan.

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Cocullo

Cocullo is a comune and town in the Province of L'Aquila, located in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

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Colubridae

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

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Colubrinae

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

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Conwy

Conwy ((south), (north); traditionally known in English as Conway) is a walled market town and community in Conwy County Borough on the north coast of Wales.

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Dorsal scales

In snakes, the dorsal scales are the longitudinal series of plates that encircle the body, but do not include the ventral scales.

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Ecotone

An ecotone is a transition area between two biomes.

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Erythrism

Erythrism or erythrochroism refers to an unusuaI reddish pigmentation of an animal's fur, hair, skin, feathers, or eggshells.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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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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Forest steppe

A forest steppe is a temperate-climate ecotone and habitat type composed of grassland interspersed with areas of woodland or forest.

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Forestry

Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, using, conserving, and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human and environment benefits.

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Four-lined snake

Elaphe quatuorlineata (common names: four-lined snake, Bulgarian ratsnake) is a member of the family Colubridae.

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Gabriel Bibron

Gabriel Bibron (20 October 1805 – 27 March 1848) was a French zoologist, and herpetologist.

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Garden City, New York

Garden City is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York, United States, in the town of Hempstead.

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George Albert Boulenger

George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians.

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Glacial period

A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances.

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Grass snake

The grass snake (Natrix natrix), sometimes called the ringed snake or water snake, is a Eurasian non-venomous snake.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Greater Caucasus

Greater Caucasus (Böyük Qafqaz, Бөјүк Гафгаз, بيوک قافقاز; დიდი კავკასიონი, Didi K’avk’asioni; Большой Кавказ, Bolshoy Kavkaz, sometimes translated as "Caucasus Major", "Big Caucasus" or "Large Caucasus") is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains.

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Haplotype

A haplotype (haploid genotype) is a group of alleles in an organism that are inherited together from a single parent.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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International College of Surgeons

The International College of Surgeons (ICS) is a global organization dedicated to promoting excellence of surgeons and surgical specialists worldwide.

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Italian Aesculapian snake

The Italian Aesculapian snake (Zamenis lineatus) is a species of snake in the Colubridae family.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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IUCN Red List

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.

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Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti

Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (4 December 1735, Vienna – 17 February 1805, Vienna) was an Austrian naturalist and zoologist of Italian origin.

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Karl Patterson Schmidt

Karl Patterson Schmidt (June 19, 1890, Lake Forest, Illinois – September 26, 1957, Chicago) was an American herpetologist.

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Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary or Carlsbad (Karlsbad) is a spa town situated in western Bohemia, Czech Republic, on the confluence of the rivers Ohře and Teplá, approximately west of Prague (Praha).

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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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List of reptiles of Europe

This is a list of European reptiles.

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List of reptiles of Italy

The Italian reptile fauna totals 48 species (including introduced and naturalised species).

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List of snake genera

List of snakes lists snakes, part of the squamata order of reptiles, by family, subfamily and genus, mostly according to the continuing work of Dr.

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Malpolon monspessulanus

Malpolon monspessulanus, commonly known as the Montpellier snake, is a species of mildly venomous rear-fanged colubrids.

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Melanism

Melanism is a development of the dark-colored pigment melanin in the skin or its appendages and is the opposite of albinism.

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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Mustelidae

The Mustelidae (from Latin mustela, weasel) are a family of carnivorous mammals, including weasels, badgers, otters, martens, mink, and wolverines, among others.

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Odenwald

The is a low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

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Passau

Passau (') is a town in Lower Bavaria, Germany, also known as the Dreiflüssestadt ("City of Three Rivers") because the Danube is joined there by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north.

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Persian ratsnake

The Persian ratsnake (Zamenis persicus) is a species of medium-sized nonvenomous ratsnake, which is endemic to Western Asia.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Podyjí National Park

Podyjí National Park (Národní park Podyjí) is a national park in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.

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Raccoon dog

The raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides, from the Greek words nukt-, "night" + ereutēs, "wanderer" + prokuōn, "before-dog" + -oidēs, "similar to"), also known as the mangut (its Evenki name) is a canid indigenous to East Asia.

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Regent's Park

Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London.

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Rod of Asclepius

In Greek mythology, the Rod of Asclepius (Greek: Ράβδος του Ασκληπιού Rábdos tou Asklipioú; Unicode symbol: ⚕), also known as the Staff of Asclepius (sometimes also spelled Asklepios or Aesculapius) and as the asklepian, is a serpent-entwined rod wielded by the Greek god Asclepius, a deity associated with healing and medicine.

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Salzach

The Salzach is a river in Austria and Germany.

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Schlangenbad

Schlangenbad is a community in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.

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Smooth snake

Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca)Street D. 1979.

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Snake

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

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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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Subcaudal scales

In snakes, the subcaudal scales are the enlarged plates on the underside of the tail.

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Subfamily

In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.

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Supralabial scale

In reptiles, the supralabial scales, also called upper-labials, are those scales that border the mouth opening along the upper jaw.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest is a temperate climate terrestrial biome, with broadleaf tree ecoregions, and with conifer and broadleaf tree mixed coniferous forest ecoregions.

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Thermoregulation

Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different.

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Venomous snake

Venomous snakes are species of the suborder Serpentes that are capable of producing venom, which is used primarily for immobilizing prey and defense mostly via mechanical injection by fangs.

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Ventral scales

In snakes, the ventral scales or gastrosteges are the enlarged and transversely elongated scales that extend down the underside of the body from the neck to the anal scale.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Welsh Mountain Zoo

The Welsh Mountain Zoo, is a zoological garden located near the town of Colwyn Bay in Conwy County, Wales.

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References

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

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