Ramphotyphlops - The world's smallest snake

Reptilia mania - Ramphotyphlops snake lineatus.

This is NOT venomous snake, eating worm eggs and burrow into the sand like ....

including the family of primitive snake with eyes and very small scales. blind eye because they live in the sand.

which contrasted with the worm, snake scales, while the worms are not scaly and slimy .... moves like a snake by forming a spiral motion.

Short description from wikipedia

Common names: blindsnakes long tailed, long-tailed blind snakes, worm snakes.

Ramphotyphlops is a genus of non-blind Venomous snakes found in southern and southeast Asia and Australia, with one species inhabiting the Americas, as well as many islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. They occur in a wide variety of habitats. Currently, 49 species are Recognized.

Ramphotyphlops lineatus (Schlegel, 1839)

Original Name: Typhlops lineatus

Synonym: Typhlops lineatus Boie, 1827 (nomen nudum); Typhlops lineatus var. sumatrana Werner, 1896

Type: RMNH 3692a, b from Java, Indonesia

Common Name: Striped Blind Snake

Vernacular Name: Snake worms; Snake iron

Distribution: S. China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Nias, Sumatra, Bangka, Java, Madura, Kalimantan, Sarawak and Sabah

in addition to helping regulate the population of worms from eating worm eggs on the ground, snakes LEAST this world is one of several million exotic wildlife and unique on this earth ...

Ramphotyphlops or Brahminy Blind Snake - non venomous, burrowing snake native to southeast asia. Brahminy Blind snakes are parthenogetic - can spawn young without males

Phyton reticulatus

Reptilia mania - Phyton reticulatus

Species: Python reticulatus Schneider, 1801

N.I. : Reticulated Python, Sowo Cinde, Python Batik, Puspo Kajang (Java)

Phyton reticulatus

Phyton reticulatus

 Phyton reticulatus

a. Characteristics:

- Body parts of the dorsal yellowish or brown with shades such as nets    (parallelogram) with black on the inside surrounded by a yellow color

- The body ventral yellow

- There is a black line extending from the back of the eye

- Head yellow with a black line right in the middle

- round eyes with vertical pupils elip

- The length of ± 6000 mm - 15 000 mm (max), 9000 mm (normal)

b. Habitat: land, forests, close to the water

c. Activity: Noctural

d. Type of gear: Aglypha

e. Food: big mammals, birds

Brazilian Rainbow Boa

Reptilia mania - a male Brazilian Rainbow Boa of unknown age, but estimated at two to three years. If things go well with his new girlfriend Topaz, he will be one of Living Gems Reptiles' 2011 breeder animals. Picture taken in September 2010, just a few months before the happy couples were introduced.

Snake Coffee - Elaphe flavolineata Schlegel

Species: Elaphe flavolineata Schlegel, 1837

N.I. : Common Racer, Snake Coffee (Java), Snake Puspo brele (Java).

a. Characteristics:

- Body parts of the dorsal brown or grayish with a black rectangle with a white stripe front

- There is a longitudinal black stripe on the vertebral (spine)

- Body of the back dark brown or black

- Body ventral yellow, brown or blackish

- The length of ± 2400 mm

- When angry or feel threatened will fold the front part of his body flattened like the letter S, then opened his mouth to attack

Ular Bandotan Tutul the javanese Snake

Ular Bandotan Tutul the javanese Snake Or Xenocrophis piscator

Species: Xenocrophis piscator Schlegel, 1837

N.I. : checkered Keelback, Bandotan Tutul and Bandotan Single (Java)

a. Characteristics:

- Body parts of the dorsal yellow or greenish brown (olive) with S-shaped black mark, black on his body or along the longitudinal lines

- Body ventral white and there are black lines on each of the scales

- There are black lines on the back of the eye

- large round eyes

- When angry snake akna memipihkan body ground

- The length of ± 1100 mm - 1200 mm

b. Habitat: ½ perarian, near ponds, rivers, rice fields

c. Activity: Diurnal

d. Type of gear: Aglypha

e. Food: Frogs and fish

f. Population: Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Penang

g. Not venomous

cylindrophis ruffus, two-headed snake

This snake has a scientific name Cylindrophis ruffus (Laurenti 1768). Or commonly known by locals as the snake's head in two, oray oray totog or binoculars (Sunda), majara (Toraja), or snake gelenggang. In English called by the name Red-tailed Pipe Snake Pipe Snake or Common.

Called Snake Head Two for a glimpse of the tail and head look similar. As a self-defense to avoid predators tail of this snake will rise up and head to the hidden body part. Types of snakes are not venomous.

Characteristics:

- Body of the top (dorsal) is black, with mottled red-orange. Head and tail red colored orange with black spots.

- Bright colors often fade or disappear with age and body size of snakes, so that the snake appears dominant black.

- The down side of the body (ventral), black with brindle and white, take turns arranged like a chessboard.

- The down side reddish tail, causing it often mistaken for a snake chili (Maticora intestinal) are venomous (Wikipedia 2009).

Snake Cylindrophis ruffus

Habitat: lowland forests of the humid, gardens and agricultural lands, marshy areas and rice fields, under rotten logs, beneath a pile of rotting litter, or on the riverbank.

In Indonesia, two snake heads can be found in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, Sula Islands, Sangihe Island, Buton, Boano and Bacan in Maluku.

Once again, this snake may be around us, identify them so we do not take the wrong action and to provide habitat for a decent life for these animals. OK ..

ASSASSINATED DO NOT SNAKE!

Ptyas korros - Ular kayu (Jawa), ular koros, ular sayur

Ptyas korros snake

Species: Ptyas korros Schlegel, 1837

N.I. : Indian Rat snake, 'snake wood "(Java), koros snake, snakes vegetable

a. Characteristics:

• The body top (dorsal), brown or greenish brown
• Scales in the back of the yellow body with black line around each of the scales.
• The body bottom (ventral) is yellow.
• round eyes, large and black.
• In the young there putuh stripes on the body top (dorsal).
• The length of 300 mm - 1700 mm

 Ptyas korros snake

b. Habitat: The bushes, sometimes basking in a tree

c. Type of gear: Aghlypa

e. Activity: Diurnal

f. Food: Mice, frogs, toads and birds

h. Population: Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan