Snake Oil originally meant a fraudulent health product or a product of unproven medical value. Today, Snake Oil refers to all products with dubious, unverifiable, or questionable quality. Logically a snake oil vendor is a person who knowingly sells fraudulent products or is a charlatan or a fraud or a quack. Salesmen who sell these products…
There are a large number of snake varieties in this world. In fact, there are more than Three Thousand kinds of snakes. Pythons, seven or more meters in length are the giants among snakes. They can coil around a full-grown Antelope, squeeze it to death and swallow it without much ado. Then there are pencil-sized…
At some time or the other, when we see the snake charmer sitting with crossed legs, blowing his flute, it makes us awestruck, as at that time, his venomous cobra, wakes up from the basket and spreads wide its puffed-up hood, rocks its hood hither and thither in tune with the music. The snake charmer…
Scientific Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Viperidae Subfamily: Crotalinae Genus: Crotalus Species: C. cerastes Binomial name: Crotalus cerastes The Crotalus Cerastes snake, a variety of venomous pit viper belongs to the genera Crotalus (rattlesnake) . They dwell in…
Scientific Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Colubridae Subfamily: Natricinae Genus: Thamnophis Species: T. sauritus Binomial name: Thamnophis sauritus The Ribbonsnake or Ribbon Snake, biologically named Thamnophis Sauritus, is a normal variant of the garter snake, widespread in the…
Scientific Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Colubridae Subfamily: Natricinae Genus: Rhabdophis Species: R. Subminiatus Binomial name: Rhabdophis Subminiatus The snake Rhabdophis Subminiatus, called the Red-necked Keelback, belongs to the Colubridae family of snakes. This snake has a green tint, with yellow and red portions about the…
Scientific Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Elapidae Genus: Bungarus Species: B. flaviceps Binomial name: Bungarus flaviceps The Redheaded Krait, Bungarus Flaviceps, is a big and poisonous snake from the Elapid family, with spectacular color combinations. This deadly venomous snake grows to a…
Scientific Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Elapidae Genus: Pseudechis Species: P. porphyriacus The snake, Pseudechis Porphyriacus, biologically called the Red Bellied Black Snake, is a variety of Elapid snakes, inhabiting the Eastern regions of Australia. The venom of this snake causes…
Scientific Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Viperidae Subfamily: Crotalinae To survive on our planet, one species has to depend on another. So too, the rattlesnake and the humans, have to find a way out of the terrible and fearful mutual relationship…
Scientific Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Colubridae Genus: Various You can find Rat snakes all along a great part of the Northern Hemisphere and they can be described as medium to large constrictors. They feed on rodents and birds, usually. Some…
Scientific Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Colubridae Subfamily: Natricinae Genus: Regina Species: R. septemvittata Binomial name: Regina septemvittata The Queen Snake Regina Septemvittata belongs to the sub-order Serpentes, a family of Colubrid snakes, and is very much a…
Scientific Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Infraorder: Alethinophidia Family: Pythonidae Pythons belong to a genus of non-venomous snakes found in the African and Asian continents. There are 12 recognized species in the genus. Python Reticulus is the longest among snake species in…