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Dog-faced Water Snake
Cerberus rynchops
A stocky, mildly venomous snake of Asian mangrove swamps with a blunt dog-like snout suited to hunting in muddy water.
Looking for 18-letter snakes? Here are 7 snakes that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Letters are counted across the whole name with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and diacritics excluded. "Apple Pie" is 8 letters; "Boeuf Bourguignon" is 16.
List of 18-letter Snakes
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Eastern Indigo Snake
Drymarchon couperi
The longest native snake in the United States, a glossy blue-black colubrid that preys on venomous snakes in the southeastern coastal plain.
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Jungle Carpet Python
Morelia spilota cheynei
A striking yellow-and-black Australian python prized in herpetoculture, native to rainforest in far north Queensland.
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Long-nosed Whip Snake
Platyceps najadum
A slim Mediterranean colubrid with a sharply pointed snout, racing through dry scrub and stone walls at remarkable speed.
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Northern Water Snake
Nerodia sipedon
A heavy, banded non-venomous water snake of eastern North America, frequently misidentified as a cottonmouth and killed by mistake.
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Uracoan Rattlesnake
Crotalus vegrandis
A small Venezuelan rattlesnake of dry savanna habitats, named for the Uracoa River in Monagas state.
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Zebra Spitting Cobra
Naja nigricincta
A small African elapid of dry savanna and rocky scrub, marked with stark light-and-dark bars that resemble zebra stripes on the throat.
About 18-letter snakes
That's our current list of snakes with exactly 18 letters. Need a different length? Try the browse-by-length pills in the sidebar, or combine with a starting letter — for example, 18-letter snakes that start with A.