Saturday, March 31, 2012

Snake Alphabet

Tom McIntyre's Ophidian Abecedarium (story below with "Gun Alphabet"). Pix, anecdotes, suggestions all encouraged. Right click photo to enlarge...

SNAKE ALPHABET–A to Z

Asp
Boomslang
Cottonmouth
Death Adder
Eastern Diamondback Rattler
Flying Snake
Garter Snake
Hognose Snake
Indigo Snake
Japanese Striped Snake
King Snake
Lyre Snake
Mamba (Jonathan Hanson's friend Neels with pet)

Night Snake
Olive Sea Snake
Python
Queen Snake
Rat Snake
Sidewinder
Taipan
Urutu
Vine Snake
Water Moccasin
X (Equis in Spanish, another name for the fer-de-lance)
Yellow Anaconda
Zebra Spitting Cobra

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hognose Snake vs Hamadryad

or

King Snake vs King Cobra

No Contest

WH

Moro Rogers said...

Coral Snake and Worm Snake are good alternates for C and W. (Worm snakes aka threadsnakes are seriously weird. They may be the only opalescent pink land vertebrate that I can think of.=p)