Snake

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• Henophidia

:Aniliidae

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:Anomochilidae

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:Boidae

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:Bolyeriidae

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:Cylindrophiidae

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:Loxocemidae

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:Pythonidae

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:Tropidophiidae

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:Uropeltidae

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:Xenopeltidae

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• Typhlopoidea

:Anomalepididae

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:Leptotyphlopidae

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:Typhlopidae

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• Xenophidia

:Acrochordidae

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:Atractaspididae

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:Colubridae

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:Elapidae

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:Hydrophiidae

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:Viperidae

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Snakes are cold blooded legless reptiles closely related to lizards, which share the order Squamata. There are also several species of legless lizard which superficially resemble snakes, but are not otherwise related to them. A love of snakes is called ophiophilia, a fear of snakes is called ophidiophobia (or snakephobia), a specialist in snakes is an ophiologist.

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An old synonym for snake is serpent; in modern usage this usually refers to a mythic or symbolic snake, and information about such creatures will be found under serpent. This article deals with the biology of snakes.

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Snake: Evolution ►



 

Cold blooded: Cold-blooded is a common term used to describe organisms that maintain their body temperatures in ways different from mammals and birds. The term is now archaic in scientific contexts. Cold-blooded creatures were, initially, presumed to be incapable of maintaining their body temperatures at all. T...

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Order: Order (from Latin ordo "row, rank, series, arrangement", Old French ordre from the Latin accusative, ordinem, attested in English from the 1220s). The word conveys a notion of "a system of parts subject to certain uniform, established ranks or proportions", an idea very central to scholastic thoug...




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