Description Scientific Name: Python curtus Lifespan: 20 – 25 years Compared to its size, this snake has a short, tapering tail, yet its body is heavy and powerful. It is regarded as a medium-sized species of snakes. It typically has red areas and is grayish-brown, tan, or beige in colour. The colour of these marks […]
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Description Scientific Name: Erycinae sp. Lifespan: 15-30 years in captivity The family Boidae includes these reptiles. Unlike most other snakes, which have eyes on the sides of their heads, sand boas have eyes on the tops of their heads. They look more like straight tubes because their heads are nearly the same width as their
Description Scientific Name: Pantherophis sp. Lifespan: Approximately 10–15 years in the wild and possibly 20 years in captivity Along with kingsnakes, milk snakes, vine snakes, and indigo snakes, rats are members of the Colubridae family’s subfamily Colubrinae. The typical rat snake is a medium-sized snake that ranges in length from 42 to 72 inches (106.7
Description Scientific Name: Heterodon sp. Lifespan: 18-30 years The term “hognose snake” is used to describe a variety of unrelated species of upturned-snout snakes that are members of two colubrid snake families and one pseudoxyrhophiid snake family. Hognose snakes are well known for their upturned snout/rostral scale, which makes it easier for them to dig
Description Scientific Name: Lampropeltis triangulum Lifespan: 15 years in the wild, and maybe 20 years or more in captivity. Milk snakes often have smooth, glossy scales with alternating bands of red-black-yellow or white-black-red colouring. However, red dots rather than bands can be found in some populations. Red, black, and yellow transverse bands can be found on
Description Scientific Name: Lampropeltis sp. Lifespan: 12-15 years Kingsnakes are colubrid snakes from the New World that belong to the genus Lampropeltis, which has 26 species. The size and colors of kingsnakes vary greatly. Other kingsnakes have vivid markings in white, red, yellow, grey, and lavender that appear as rings, longitudinal stripes, speckles, and saddle-shaped
Description Scientific Name: Thamnophis sp. Lifespan: 10 years or more Small to medium-sized snakes of the genus Thamnophis of the family Colubridae are sometimes referred to as “garter snakes.” Garter snakes range in size from little to medium. Although the pattern might change, the garter snake is identified by a pattern of three light stripes
Description Scientific Name: Pantherophis guttatus Lifespan: They typically live six to eight years in the wild, but in captivity, they can live up to or past the age of 23. The corn snake, also known as the red rat snake, is a slim, orange or brownish-yellow snake with huge, red streaks running down its back.
Description: Scientific name: Gyalopion canum Life span: Unknown The Western hooknose snake, also known as Gyalopion canum, is a type of small colubrid snake. Because it frequently inhabits the Chihuahuan Desert, it is also known as the Chihuahuan hook-nosed snake. Native Region/Habitat From western Texas to southeastern Arizona and into northern and central
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Description: Scientific name: Acrochordus javanicus Life span: Up to five years in captivity The elephant trunk snake, also known as the Javan file snake (Acrochordus javanicus), is a species of snake that belongs to the Acrochordidae family, which includes a number of prehistoric aquatic snakes that are not venomous. Instead of huge shields,
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