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Asp Viper
Vipera aspis
A short, thick alpine viper of southwestern Europe, named for the asp of Greek and Roman antiquity but distinct from Cleopatra's snake.
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List of 3-syllable Snakes that contain S
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Brown Tree Snake
Boiga irregularis
A nocturnal Indo-Pacific colubrid notorious for invading Guam and devastating the island's native bird fauna.
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Bushmaster
Lachesis muta
The largest viper in the Americas, a long-fanged neotropical pit viper feared in rainforest villages from Nicaragua to Brazil.
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Coral Snake
Micrurus nigrocinctus
A widespread brightly ringed neotropical elapid with potent neurotoxic venom, common in moist forests across Central and northern South America.
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Forest Cobra
Naja melanoleuca
A large, glossy black-and-yellow African elapid of equatorial rainforests, known for its semi-aquatic habits and powerful neurotoxic venom.
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Garter Snake
Thamnophis sirtalis
A small striped North American natricine snake found in nearly every habitat across the continent, harmless and often kept as a beginner pet.
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Glossy Snake
Arizona elegans
A sand-coloured nocturnal constrictor of the American Southwest, named for the polished sheen of its smooth scales.
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Hognose Snake
Heterodon platirhinos
A stout, upturned-snouted North American colubrid famous for hissing, flattening its neck, and then playing dead when bluffing fails.
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King Brown Snake
Pseudechis australis
A heavy, broad-headed Australian elapid also known as the mulga snake, with the largest venom yield of any Australian snake.
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Kirtland Snake
Clonophis kirtlandii
A small, secretive Midwestern North American natricine snake that lives almost entirely in burrows beneath wet meadows and is now seriously declining.
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Mangrove Snake
Boiga dendrophila
A striking black-and-yellow Southeast Asian colubrid with rear fangs, found coiled in low branches over tidal estuaries.
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Queen Snake
Regina septemvittata
A slim, harmless North American water snake that specialises almost entirely on freshly moulted crayfish.
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Ribbon Snake
Thamnophis sauritus
A long, thin striped garter-snake relative that hunts frogs along the edges of clean ponds and streams in eastern North America.
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Ringneck Snake
Diadophis punctatus
A small, slate-grey North American snake with a vivid orange neck ring and belly, often found under logs and flat stones.
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Rough Green Snake
Opheodrys aestivus
A slim emerald-green arboreal colubrid of the eastern United States that hunts caterpillars and spiders in low foliage.
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Sand Boa
Eryx colubrinus
A short, thick, blunt-tailed burrowing boa of African and Asian deserts that spends most of its life buried in loose sand.
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Sidewinder
Crotalus cerastes
A small horned rattlesnake of North American deserts that moves by throwing its body sideways across hot loose sand.
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Tiger Snake
Notechis scutatus
A boldly banded Australian elapid of cool, wet southern habitats, responsible for a steady share of the country's serious snakebites.
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