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Dragon Snake (Xenodermus javanicus)   Dragon Snakes have three rows of oddly enlarged scales making them wildly different from any other species of snake. They were once placed in the catch-all colubrid family, but recent phylogenetic studies show them to be very different from most colubrids (duhhh). Some authorities now place them in their own family, Xenodermatidae. Snek Photo, Colubrid Snakes, Snake Creature, Dangerous Snakes, Snake Species, Hognose Snake, Cool Snakes, Snake Scales, Snake Dragon

Dragon Snake (Xenodermus javanicus) Dragon Snakes have three rows of oddly enlarged scales making them wildly different from any other species of snake. They were once placed in the catch-all colubrid family, but recent phylogenetic studies show them to be very different from most colubrids (duhhh). Some authorities now place them in their own family, Xenodermatidae.

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A large and unusually colored new snake species of the genus Tantilla (Squamata; Colubridae) from the Peruvian Andes [PeerJ] Cottonmouth Snake, Dry Forest, Snake Species, Snake Drawing, Snake Art, Animal Anatomy, Snake Pattern, Leopard Gecko, Snake Patterns

A new colubrid species of the genus Tantilla from the dry forest of the northern Peruvian Andes is described on the basis of two specimens, which exhibit a conspicuous sexual dimorphism. Tantilla tjiasmantoi sp. nov. represents the third species of the genus in Peru. The new species is easily distinguished from its congeners by the combination of scalation characteristics and the unusual transversely-banded color pattern on the dorsum. A detailed description of the skull morphology of the…

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