California Kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae), family Colubridae, California, USA
photograph by Brian Box
Gray Rat Snake (Pantherophis spiloides), family Colubridae, NW Florida, USA
- This species used to be considered a subspecies of the Black Rat Snake, Elaphe/Pantherophis obseletus, but the Rat Snakes of the U.S. have undergone considerable taxonomic revision over the last few years.
photograph by Dick Bartlett
Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi), family Colubridae, Everglades, South FL, USA
- All indigo snakes used to be within the species D. corais, which had 12 subspecies, but they are now broken up between 5 or 6 species.
photograph by Chris Gillette
Northern Green Ratsnake (Senticolis triaspis intermedia), family Colubridae, Arizona, USA
photograph by Dick Bartlett
Blue Racer (Coluber constrictor foxii), family Colubridae, found in the North-central area of the U.S.
photograph by geomamba
Trans-Pecos Rat Snake (Bogertophis subocularis), family Colubridae, from West Texas and northern Mexico
photograph by colubridsandplantsaddicts
Black-skinned Parrot-Snake (Leptophis nigromarginatus), family Colubridae, Yasuní National Park, Ecuador
photograph by Javier Aznar González de Rueda
Black-headed Collared Snake (Sibynophis melanocephalus), family Colubridae, Singapore
- AKA Malayan Many-toothed or Malayan Hinge-toothed Snake.
- Snakes in this genus have hinged teeth that help them feed on lizards with hard plate like scales, like skinks.
- They are capable of detaching the end of the tail, like a lizard.
photographs by Hamad Azam
Ringed Hognose Snakes (Xenodon semicinctus), family Colubridae, Argentina
- Coral snake mimic.
- The snakes in this genus are also referred to as “tricolor hognose snakes”.
photographs by Jeremy Pixton
Savanna Twig Snake or Southern Vine Snake (Thelotornis capensis), family Colubridae, found in southern Africa
Venomous.
- Rear-fanged, but potently venomous.
- Famously, the herpetologist Robert Mertens died in 1975, from a bite. It was not, at that time, known to be deadly by western scientists.
photograph by Thomas HRN