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Arabian Sand Boa
Eryx jayakari
A small, pop-eyed desert boa with eyes set on top of its head, allowing it to ambush prey while completely buried in loose sand.
Below are snakes that contain the letter B anywhere in the name. Each of the 33 snakes below opens to a full profile.
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List of Snakes That Contain B
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Ball Python
Python regius
A small, docile West African python that curls into a tight ball when threatened, now the most popular pet snake in the world.
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Banded Krait
Bungarus fasciatus
A boldly black-and-yellow ringed elapid of South and Southeast Asia, shy by day but highly venomous if cornered.
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Black Mamba
Dendroaspis polylepis
Africa's fastest snake and one of the most feared elapids, named for the inky black lining of its mouth rather than its skin colour.
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Black Racer
Coluber constrictor
A fast, slender, glossy black colubrid common across the eastern United States, frequently mistaken for a venomous snake.
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Blue Coral Snake
Calliophis bivirgatus
A spectacular Southeast Asian elapid with deep blue flanks, a red head and tail, and venom glands stretching a quarter of its body length.
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Boa Constrictor
Boa constrictor
A heavy-bodied neotropical boa famed for its strong constriction and adaptability across forests, savannas, and human-modified habitats.
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Boelen Python
Simalia boeleni
A glossy iridescent black mountain python of New Guinea, prized by collectors and considered sacred by some highland communities.
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Boomslang
Dispholidus typus
A large-eyed, slender African tree snake with potent rear-fanged hemotoxic venom and remarkable colour differences between the sexes.
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Brown Tree Snake
Boiga irregularis
A nocturnal Indo-Pacific colubrid notorious for invading Guam and devastating the island's native bird fauna.
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Bull Snake
Pituophis catenifer sayi
A large constrictor of the North American Great Plains that hisses loudly and rattles its tail when threatened, often mistaken for a rattlesnake.
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Burmese Python
Python bivittatus
One of the world's largest snakes, a Southeast Asian giant now infamous as an invasive species in the Everglades of Florida.
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Bushmaster
Lachesis muta
The largest viper in the Americas, a long-fanged neotropical pit viper feared in rainforest villages from Nicaragua to Brazil.
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Eastern Brown Snake
Pseudonaja textilis
An aggressive, slim Australian elapid responsible for most snakebite deaths on the continent and possessing the world's second-most toxic venom.
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Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
Crotalus adamanteus
The largest rattlesnake in the world, a heavy-bodied pit viper of the longleaf pine ecosystems of the American Southeast.
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Egyptian Cobra
Naja haje
A large, broad-hooded African elapid steeped in ancient Egyptian symbolism and reputed to be the snake of Cleopatra's death.
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Forest Cobra
Naja melanoleuca
A large, glossy black-and-yellow African elapid of equatorial rainforests, known for its semi-aquatic habits and powerful neurotoxic venom.
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Gaboon Viper
Bitis gabonica
A massive, perfectly camouflaged African viper with the longest fangs of any snake, lying motionless in leaf litter for weeks at a time.
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Green Mamba
Dendroaspis angusticeps
A vivid emerald-green arboreal elapid of East African coastal forests, far shyer and more retiring than its infamous black cousin.
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Habu
Protobothrops flavoviridis
A long, slim pit viper endemic to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, notorious for hunting in sugar cane fields and old stone walls.
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Indian Cobra
Naja naja
A widespread South Asian elapid bearing the iconic spectacle marking on its hood, sacred in Hindu mythology and one of the Big Four medically important snakes of India.
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Jamaican Boa
Chilabothrus subflavus
A handsome yellow-and-black Caribbean constrictor endemic to Jamaica, critically reduced by introduced mongooses and habitat loss.
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King Brown Snake
Pseudechis australis
A heavy, broad-headed Australian elapid also known as the mulga snake, with the largest venom yield of any Australian snake.
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King Cobra
Ophiophagus hannah
The world's longest venomous snake, native to South and Southeast Asian forests, known for the hooded display and powerful neurotoxic venom.
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Madagascar Tree Boa
Sanzinia madagascariensis
A handsome iridescent arboreal boa endemic to the rainforests of eastern Madagascar, one of three native boa species on the island.
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Ribbon Snake
Thamnophis sauritus
A long, thin striped garter-snake relative that hunts frogs along the edges of clean ponds and streams in eastern North America.
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Sand Boa
Eryx colubrinus
A short, thick, blunt-tailed burrowing boa of African and Asian deserts that spends most of its life buried in loose sand.
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Spitting Cobra
Naja nigricollis
A black-necked African cobra that defends itself by spraying venom from modified fangs straight at the eyes of a threat.
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Timber Rattlesnake
Crotalus horridus
A large, heavy-bodied rattlesnake of eastern North American hardwood forests, calm by nature and culturally important in colonial American history.
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Usambara Bush Viper
Atheris ceratophora
A small, glittering arboreal viper of the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania, with strongly keeled scales that give it a rough armoured look.
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Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
Crotalus atrox
The most widespread rattlesnake in the American Southwest, responsible for a large share of snakebites across the desert states.
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Yellow-bellied Sea Snake
Hydrophis platurus
A fully pelagic marine elapid found drifting in open ocean across most of the Indian and Pacific, the most widely distributed snake in the world.
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Zebra Spitting Cobra
Naja nigricincta
A small African elapid of dry savanna and rocky scrub, marked with stark light-and-dark bars that resemble zebra stripes on the throat.
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