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African Rock Python
Python sebae
Africa's largest snake and one of the world's heaviest constrictors, blotched with rich brown and tan along its long, muscular body.
Below are snakes that contain the letter H anywhere in the name. Each of the 30 snakes below opens to a full profile.
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List of Snakes That Contain H
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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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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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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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Carpet Python
Morelia spilota
A widely variable Australasian python with bold geometric patterns, comfortable in trees, rocks, and even suburban roofs.
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Coachwhip
Masticophis flagellum
A long, slender, exceptionally fast North American colubrid whose tail is patterned like a braided whip.
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Copperhead
Agkistrodon contortrix
A pit viper of the eastern United States with copper-coloured hourglass bands, responsible for more snakebites in the U.S. than any other species.
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Death Adder
Acanthophis antarcticus
A squat, viper-like Australian elapid that ambushes prey by wriggling its grub-shaped tail tip as a lure.
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Eyelash Viper
Bothriechis schlegelii
A small, colourful arboreal pit viper of Central American cloud forests, named for the spiky raised scales above its eyes.
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Golden Lancehead
Bothrops insularis
A critically endangered pit viper found only on Snake Island off the coast of Brazil, with venom potent enough to subdue migratory birds in flight.
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Green Tree Python
Morelia viridis
A bright emerald-green python of New Guinean and northern Australian rainforests, often photographed coiled neatly on a horizontal branch.
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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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Hognose Snake
Heterodon platirhinos
A stout, upturned-snouted North American colubrid famous for hissing, flattening its neck, and then playing dead when bluffing fails.
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Horned Viper
Cerastes cerastes
A small, sand-coloured desert viper of North Africa and the Middle East, recognisable by the upright horn above each eye.
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Indian Python
Python molurus
A large South Asian python, paler and a touch shorter than its Burmese relative, equally at home in jungles and rocky hillsides.
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Jungle Carpet Python
Morelia spilota cheynei
A striking yellow-and-black Australian python prized in herpetoculture, native to rainforest in far north Queensland.
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Long-nosed Whip Snake
Platyceps najadum
A slim Mediterranean colubrid with a sharply pointed snout, racing through dry scrub and stone walls at remarkable speed.
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Night Snake
Hypsiglena torquata
A small, vertically pupilled North American colubrid often mistaken for a baby rattlesnake but armed only with mildly toxic rear-fang saliva.
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Northern Water Snake
Nerodia sipedon
A heavy, banded non-venomous water snake of eastern North America, frequently misidentified as a cottonmouth and killed by mistake.
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Nose-horned Viper
Vipera ammodytes
A southern European viper with a single upward-curving horn on the snout, considered the most dangerous snake in Europe.
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Olive Python
Liasis olivaceus
A large, uniformly coloured Australian python of rocky watercourses across the tropical north, second only to the scrub python in Australian length.
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Reticulated Python
Malayopython reticulatus
The longest snake species in the world, a slender Southeast Asian giant with a complex network-like geometric pattern.
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Rhinoceros Viper
Bitis nasicornis
A spectacularly patterned West and Central African viper with two or three horns at the tip of the snout.
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Rough Green Snake
Opheodrys aestivus
A slim emerald-green arboreal colubrid of the eastern United States that hunts caterpillars and spiders in low foliage.
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Smooth Snake
Coronella austriaca
A small, slim European colubrid with mirror-smooth scales, scarce and protected across most of its northern range.
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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 Hognose Snake
Heterodon nasicus
A small, upturned-snouted prairie snake popular as a pet, famous for puffing up dramatically and then playing dead.
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Whip Snake
Demansia psammophis
A long, slim, fast-moving Australian colubrid renowned for chasing prey over open ground at impressive speed.
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Yamakagashi
Rhabdophis tigrinus
A handsome rear-fanged Japanese natricine snake with unusual neck glands that sequester toxins from the toads it eats.
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