Snakes are some of the most colourful and interesting animals on the planet. In total, there are 18 families, over 500 genera and almost 4,000 species of snake including boas, pythons, vipers, elapids, typical snakes and blind snakes. In this guide, we'll explore an array of colourful and interesting snakes including a quick overview of the most common families and the most weird and wonderful species including the elephant trunk snake and the blind snake.

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00:30 Boas (Green anaconda, Emerald tree boa, Javelin sand boa…)
02:19 Dwarf boas (Panamanian dwarf boa)
02:27 Pythons (Burmese python, Green tree python, Blackheaded python…)
04:11 Pit vipers (Eyelash pit viper, Beautiful pit viper, Rattlesnakes…)
07:00 True/Pitless vipers (Bush viper, Horned adders, Spidertailed viper...)
08:39 Elapids & Cobras (King cobra, Red spitting cobra, Rinkhals…)
10:33 Coral snakes (Eastern coral snake, Blue Malaysian coral snake…)
11:52 Sea snakes/kraits (Banded sea krait, Yellowbellied sea snake…)
13:12 Other Elapids (Black mamba, King brown, Desert death adder…)
16:00 Typical snakes & Natricinae (Garter snake, Water snake…)
18:06 Dipsadinae (Worm snake, Neotropical snaileater, Giant false viper…)
21:15 Ahaetuliinae (Whipsnake, Flying snake, Beautiful bronzeback…)
23:07 Colubrinae (Mangrove snake, Honduran milk snake…)
24:56 Rat snakes (Japanese rat snake, Rhinoceros rat snake & Corn snake…)
27:31 Remaining Families (Elephant trunk snake & Brahminy blind snake…)

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Sources & Further Reading
Listed below are the sources used to create the video.

Largest snakes in the world
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/whati...
Smallest snakes in the world
https://azanimals.com/blog/top10s...
Most venomous snakes
https://www.everythingreptiles.com/20...
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake/
Dwarf Boas
https://reptilesmagazine.com/keeping...
Blue Eyed Leucistic Ball Python
https://www.everythingreptiles.com/bl...
Butter Ball Python
https://www.reptilerange.com/butterb...
Snake infrared detection
https://www.nature.com/articles/news....
Why do Eyelash Pitvipers have Eyelashes?
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/ey...
Desert horned viper’s horns
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/...
Why is the King Cobra genus monotypic?
https://thefederal.com/features/news...
What are the effects of Cytotoxins?
https://biomedicalsciences.unimelb.ed...
What is a burrowing snake?
https://thesciencebreaker.org/breaks/...
MacClelland’s Coral Snake
https://www.thainationalparks.com/spe...
What colour is the Tschudi's False Coral Snake?
https://reptiledatabase.reptarium.cz...
https://www.naturemyview.com/blog/bl...
Clouded snake | Sibon nebulatus
https://reptiledatabase.reptarium.cz...
Texas Rat Snake colouration
https://reptiledatabase.reptarium.cz...
Why do rhinoceros rat snakes have a horn?
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/rh...
Bombay earth snake
https://www.mindat.org/taxon9212284....

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