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- Anal scale [r]: The scale just in front of and covering the cloacal opening. [e]
- Bitis [r]: Genus of venomous vipers found in Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. [e]
- Blade Runner [r]: 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, set in an imagined Los Angeles of 2019. [e]
- Causus lichtensteinii [r]: A venomous viper species found in western and central Africa with no known subspecies. [e]
- Crotalinae [r]: a subfamily of the family Viperidae known as "pitvipers" due to the presence of a heat-sensing pit organ located between the eye and the nostril on either side of the head, this distinguishes them from the "true vipers". Examples of members of this subfamily include Rattlesnakes, lanceheads, and Asian pitvipers. [e]
- Daboia russelii siamensis [r]: Eastern Russell's viper, a subspecies found in parts of southeast Asia, southern China and Taiwan. [e]
- Genesis [r]: First book of the Torah and the Hebrew Bible. [e]
- Mammal [r]: A warm-blooded animal with a backbone which also has hair, and produces milk to feed its young. [e]
- Mental scale [r]: Median plate on the tip of the lower jaw, in snakes and other scaled reptiles. [e]
- Occipital scales [r]: Enlarged plates that lie directly behind the parietal scales in reptiles. [e]
- Ocular scales [r]: Scales that form the margin of the eye in reptiles, with numbers of these scales present, and sometimes the shapes and sizes, are some of the characteristics used to differentiate species from one another. [e]
- Paraventral scales [r]: Longitudinal rows of dorsal scales that contact the ventral scales in snakes. [e]
- Parietal scales [r]: Scales of a snake which are on the head of the snake and are connected to the frontals towards the posterior. [e]
- Shiva [r]: Major Hindu god and one aspect of Trimurti, in the Shaiva tradition of Hinduism, Shiva is seen as the Supreme God, in the Smarta tradition, he is one of the five primary forms of God. [e]
- Snake (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Venomous snake [r]: is a snake that uses modified saliva, venom, delivered through fangs in its mouth, to immobilize or kill its prey. Examples of venomous snakes includes the Elapidae family which includes the subfamily Elapinae such as cobras, mambas, kraits, and Hydrophiinae such as the Australian elapids (taipans, brown snakes, tiger snakes), sea snakes and the Viperidae family which includes true vipers such as Russell's viper, saw-scaled vipers, puff adders, Gaboon vipers, and pitvipers such as Rattlesnakes, lanceheads and Asian pitvipers. Some colubrids are venomous such as snakes of the genus Boiga (cat snakes), Rhabdophis (keelback snakes), Thelotornis (twig snakes) and the highly venomous Boomslang. [e]
- Ventral scales [r]: Enlarged and transversely elongated scales in snakes, that extend down the underside of the body from the neck to the anal scale. [e]
- Viperidae [r]: are a family of venomous snakes found all over the world, except in Antarctica, Australia, Ireland, Madagascar, Hawaii (U.S. state), New Zealand, various other isolated islands, and north of the Arctic Circle. All have relatively long, hinged fangs that permit deep penetration and injection of venom. [e]