MeSH

Limbless REPTILES of the suborder Serpentes.

Snakes that produce SNAKE VENOMS. Venomous snakes are most often members of ELAPIDAE (e.g., cobras) including sea snakes in HYDROPHIINAE and VIPERIDAE (e.g., vipers).

Year introduced: 2024

Elapid snakes indigenous to the Southern United States, Central, South America, East, South and Southeast Asia. They are generally less than 1 meter in length and have colored ring patterns.

Year introduced: 2018

The largest family of snakes comprising five subfamilies: Colubrinae, Natricinae, Homalopsinae, Lycodontinae, and Xenodontinae. They show a great diversity of eating habits, from eating almost anything to having a specialized diet. They can be oviparous, ovoviviparous, or viviparous. The majority of North American snakes are colubrines. Among the colubrids are king snakes, water snakes, and garter snakes. Some genera are poisonous. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, pp321-29)

Year introduced: 1994

Date introduced: September 20, 2021

A family of extremely venomous snakes which include coral snakes, cobras and sea snakes. They are widely distributed, occurring in the Southern United States, South America, Africa, Southern Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Like viperids (VIPERIDAE), they have fangs in the front part of the upper jaw which discharge venom that is neurotoxic.

Year introduced: 1994

Date introduced: March 31, 2023

A subfamily of marine elapid snakes comprising about 50 species with flattened oar-like tails used as sculls. They are found mostly in the coastal waters of south Asia and Australia. The largest reach a length of almost 9 feet but most species are only about a third as long. They are all venomous. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, pp331-3; Moore: Poisonous Snakes of the World, 1980, p159)

Year introduced: 2018