Suborder Serpentes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of and like other squamates, snakes are ectothermic and covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than lizards, allowing them to swallow prey much larger than their heads.
Terrestrial snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, smaller land masses, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, the Hawaiian archipelago, and islands of New Zealand, as well as many small islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific oceans. Sea snakes are found throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans. There are around 3,900 species ranging from the tiny 10.4 cm-long Barbados threadsnake to the 10m long reticulated python.
Most snakes are nonvenomous and those that have venom, use it to kill or subdue prey rather than for self-defense. Some possess venom that is potent enough to cause painful injury or death to humans. Nonvenomous snakes either swallow prey alive or kill through constriction.
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Serpentes families
Family Boidae (Boas)
The Boidae, commonly known as boas or boids, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in the Americas, as well as Africa, Europe, Asia, and some Pacific islands. Boas include some of the world’s largest snakes, with the green anaconda being the heaviest and second longest snake after the Asian reticulated python. The family contains, six subfamilies comprising 15 genera and 54 species.
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Subfamily Sanziniinae (Madagascan Boas)

(Madagascan Tree Boa)
(Ranomafana, Madagascar)

(Madagascan Tree Boa)
(Andasibe, Madagascar)
Family Colubridae (Colubrid snakes)
Colubridae is the largest snake family with around 249 genera. While most colubrids are not venomous (have venom to immobilize their prey but not harmful to humans) and are mostly harmless, a few groups, such as genus Boiga however can produce medically significant injuries, while boomslangs, twig snakes and Rhabdophis have been known to cause human fatalities.
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Subfamily Ahaetuliinae (Asia-pacific whipsnakes)

(Big-eyed Whipsnake)
(Singapore)

(Paradise Tree Snake)
(Johore, Malaysia)

(Banded Flying Snake)
(Singapore)

(Striped Bronzeback)
(Singapore)

(Blue Bronzeback)
(Khao Sok NP, Thailand)

(Kopstein’s Bronzeback)
(Singapore)

(Painted Bronzeback)
(Singapore)

(Cohn’s Bronzeback)
(Johore, Malaysia)

(Keel-bellied Whip Snake)
(Phuket, Thailand)
Subfamily Calamariinae (Reed snakes)

(Pink-headed Reed Snake)
(Singapore)

(Pink-headed Reed Snake)
(Pahang, Malaysia)

(Sabah, Malaysia)

(Dwarf Reed Snake)
(Singapore)
Subfamily Colubrinae (Colubrine snakes)

(Green Cat Snake)
(Kaeng Krachan NP, Thailand)

(Dog-toothed Cat Snake)
(Singapore)

(Golden-ringed Cat Snake)
(Singapore)

(White-spotted Cat Snake)
(Sarawak, Malaysia)

(Jasper Cat Snake)
(Singapore)

(Siamese Cat Snake)
(Doi Inthanon NP, Thailand)

(Malayan Racer)
(Singapore)

(Striped Dwarf Treesnake)
(Sabah, Malaysia)

(Orange-bellied Snake)
(Sabah, Malaysia)

(Dusky Wolf Snake)
(Sabah, Malaysia)

(Butler’s Wolf Snake)
(Pahang, Malaysia)

(Blanford’s Bridle Snake)
(Kaeng Krachan NP, Thailand)

(Malayan Bridle Snake)
(Sarawak, Malaysia)

(Everett’s Kukri Snake)
(Sabah, Malaysia)

(Small-banded Kukri Snake)
(Kaeng Krachan NP, Thailand)

(Striped Kukri Snake)
(Singapore)

(Brown Kukri Snake) (Annulated form)
(Kalimantan, Indonesia)

(Barred Kukri Snake)
(Singapore)

(Keeled Rat Snake)
(Singapore)

(White-bellied Rat Snake)
(Singapore)
Subfamily Dipsadinae (Dipsadine snakes)

(Mindo, Ecuador)

(Modest Ground Snake)
(Mindo, Ecuador)

(Andean Snail-eater)
(Mindo, Ecuador)

(Graceful Snail-Eater)
(Mindo, Ecuador)

(Fire-bellied Snake)
(Tandayapa, Ecuador)

(Common Blunt-headed Tree Snake)
(Sumaco, Ecuador)

(Ornate Cat-eyed Snake)
(Milpe, Ecuador)

(Hudson’s Coffee Snake)
(Sumaco, Ecuador)

(Flame Snake)
(Sumaco, Ecuador)

(Milpe, Ecuador)
Subfamily Natricinae (Nactricine snakes)

(Chequered Keelback)
(Kaeng Krachan NP, Thailand)

(Specklebelly Keelback)
(Sabah, Malaysia)

(Gunung Murud Keelback)
(Sabah, Malaysia)

(Banded Keelback)
(Khao Sok NP, Thailand)

(Siamese Red-necked Keelback)
(Kaeng Krachan NP, Thailand)

(Spotted Keelback)
(Singapore)

(Triangle Keelback)
(Sarawak, Malaysia)
Family Elapidae (Elapid snakes)
Elapids is a family of snakes characterized by their permanently erect front fangs and are venomous with the exception of the genus Emydocephalus. Many members of this family such as cobras exhibit a threat display by rearing upwards while spreading out their neck flap. Elapids are found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, with terrestrial forms in Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Americas and marine forms in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Members of the family range greatly in size from 18 cm White-lipped snake to the 5.85m King Cobra. Most species have a neurotoxic venom that is channeled by their hollow fangs, and some may contain other toxic components in various proportions. The family currently has 55 genera and 360 species and 170 subspecies.
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(Malayan Banded Coralsnake)
(Khao Sok NP, Thailand)

(Malayan Banded Coralsnake)
(Singapore)
Family Homalopsidae (Mud snakes)
The family Homalopsidae contains about 28 genera and 50 species, commonly referred to as Indo-Australian water snakes, mudsnakes, or bockadams. They are typically stout-bodied water snakes, and all are mildly venomous.
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(Rainbow Water Snake)
(Singapore)
Family Pareidae (Slug snakes)
Pareidae is a small family found largely in southeast Asia and contains 42 species in four genera in two subfamilies: Pareinae and Xylophiinae.
Pareidae was once considered a subfamily of Colubridae, but it is now known not to be closely related to colubrids at all.
Members of the subfamily Pareinae are active, predatory snakes. Many are snail-eating snakes that have asymmetrical lower jaws, allowing them to pry the soft bodies of snails from their spiral shells. Predation by pareids on dextral (clockwise-coiled or “right handed”) snails is thought to favor the evolution of sinistral (counter-clockwise or “left handed”) snails in southeast Asia, where 12% of snail species are sinistral (as opposed to 5% worldwide).
The subfamily Xylophiinae on the other hand have a very different lifestyle, being primarily ground-dwelling, burrowing snakes.
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(Blunthead Slug Snake)
(Sabah, Malaysia)

(Smooth Slug Snake)
(Sabah, Malaysia)

(Asian Slug Snake)
(Pahang, Malaysia)

(Keeled Slug Snake)
(Kalimantan, Indonesia)

(Mountain Slug Snake)
(Doi Inthanon NP, Thailand)

(White-spotted Slug Snake)
(Singapore)
Family Pseudaspididae
(Mole and western keeled snakes)
Pseudaspididae is a small family of elapoid snakes previously placed in subfamily Lamprophiidae and recently elevated to its own family.
They have a disjunct distribution, with two monophyletic generic species in sub-saharan Africa and two species in the genus Psammodynastes in Southeast Asia.
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(Painted Mock Viper)
(Sabah, Malaysia)

(Common Mock Viper)
(Sabah, Malaysia)
Family Pseudoxyrhophiidae (Madagascar Brook Snakes)
The Pseudoxyrhophiidae is a family of elapoidsnakes, found mostly in Madagascar. They were formerly placed as a subfamily Lamprophiidae, but are now treated as a distinct family.
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(Malagascar leaf-nose snake)
(Akanin’ ny Nofy, Madagascar)

(Giant Hognose Snake)
(Akanin’ ny Nofy, Madagascar)

(Common Madagascar Cat Snake)
(Akanin’ ny Nofy, Madagascar)

(Lateral Water Snake)
(Ambalavao, Madagascar)
Family Pythonidae (Pythons)
Pythons are a family of non-venomous snake found in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Among its members are some of the largest snakes in the world, contained in 10 genera and 39 species.
They are ambush predators that primarily kill prey by constriction, causing cardiac arrest. Being non-venomous, they are constrictors, suffocating their prey prior to consumption. They do this by striking and biting their prey to gain a hold of it, after which they suffocate their prey by using their muscular bodies to coil around their prey and constricting slowly, before swallowing whole.
Pythons are oviparous, laying eggs that females incubate until they hatch. The taxonomy of pythons has evolved, and they are now more closely related to sunbeam snakes and the Mexican burrowing python.
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(Reticulated Python)
(Singapore)
Family Tropidophiidae (Dwarf Boas)
Dwarf boas are a family of non-venomous snakes found from Mexico and the West Indies south to southeastern Brazil. These are small to medium-sized fossorial snakes, some with beautiful and striking color patterns. Currently, the family has two genera with 34 species.
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(Northern Eyelash Boa)
(Milpe, Ecuador)
Family Typhlopidae (Typical Blind Snakes)
Typhlopidae is a family of blind snakes. They are found mostly in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and all mainland Australia and various islands. The rostral scale overhangs the mouth to form a shovel-like burrowing structure. They live underground in burrows, and since they have no use for vision, their eyes are mostly vestigial. They have light-detecting black eye spots, and teeth occur in the upper jaw. Typhlopids do not have dislocatable lower jaw articulations restricting them to prey smaller than their oral aperture. All species in the family Typhlopidae are fossorial and feed on social fossorial invertebrates such as termites and ants. The tail ends with a horn-like scale. Most of these species are oviparous. Currently, 18 genera are recognized containing over 200 species
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Subfamily Asiatyphlopinae

(Tangkoko NP, Indonesia)
Family Viperidae (Vipers)
Vipers are found in most parts of the world, except for Antarctica, Australia, Hawaii, Madagascar, New Zealand and isolated islands. They are venomous and have long hinged fangs that permit deep penetration. There are three subfamilies currently recognized, and are viviparous, giving birth to “live young”, like most of the species of Boas.
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Subfamily Crotalinae (Pit vipers)

(Terciopelo)
(Milpe, Ecuador)

(Osborne’s Lancehead)
(Mindo, Ecuador)

(Chinese Mountain Pit Viper)
(Doi Inthanon NP, Thailand)

(Phuket Pit Viper) (Female)
(Phuket, Thailand)

(Siamese Peninsula Pitviper)
(Pahang, Malaysia)

(Broad-banded Temple Pit Viper)
(Sulawesi, Indonesia)
Family Xenodermidae (Xenodermid Snakes)
Xenodermidae is a family of snakes native to East Asia, South Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. All species in the family are small or moderately sized snakes, never more than 80 cm but typically less than 55 cm in total length (including tail). They are secretive, probably nocturnal, and typically inhabit moist forest habitats. They seem to be opportunistic carnivores, preying on other vertebrates. Xenodermidae have a basal position in the colubroid radiation. However, their exact position is not yet settled.
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(Javan Tubercle Snake)
(Sabah, Malaysia)
Family Xenopeltidae (Sunbeam snakes)
Sunbeam snakes are monotypic family containing a single genus with three species, and are found in Southeast Asia. Sunbeam snakes are known for their highly iridescent scales. They are closely related to the Mexican burrowing python (Loxocemus bicolor) and to the Pythonidae.
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(Asian Sunbeam Snake)
(Kaeng Krachan NP, Thailand)