Colubrids are much like elapids in every way (a broad sweeping generalisation) except the position and form of their fangs. A colubrids fangs are at the back of its jaw, so you'd basically have to stick your finger down its throat to get a dose of venom. They also have grooved fangs instead of hollow fangs, making it imposible for them to directly inject their prey. The venom is dispersed and enters the prey through wounds made by the fangs while the prey is usually already inside the snakes mouth.
All colubrids lack a pelvic girdle, a functional left lung and a coronoid bone (a small bone in the lower jaw that is found in primitive snakes but which has been lost in the more advanced families). Their heads are covered with large symmetrical scales and the vertebrae lack hypapophyses (downward-projecting spines) except in a few specialized species such as those with aquatic habits and the egg-eating snakes, in which the pointed hypapophyses of the oesophagus are used to saw through the shells of eggs.
Some popular Colubrids are: Lyre Snake Twig Snake Eastern Garter Snake Eastern Ribbon Snake Plains Garter Snake Western Ribbon Snake Chequered Garter Snake Terrestrial Garter Snake Black-Necked Garter Snake African Tiger Snake European Cat Snake Black-Headed Snake Red-Bellied Snake DeKay’s Snake South American Tiger Snake Clouded Slug-Eating Snake Rosalia Ratsnake Centipede Snake Western Patch-Nosed Snake Long-nosed Snake Asiatic Ratsnake Mole Snake Hissing Sand Snake Namib Sand Snake Bull Snake Northern Pine Snake Sonoran Gopher Snake Saddled Leaf-Nosed Snake Spotted Green Snake Vine Snake Smooth Green Snake Rough Green Snake Brown Water Snake Northern Water Snake Banded Water Snake Green Water Snake Dice Snake Grass Snake Viperine Snake Coachwhip Snake Sonoran WhipSnake Montpellier Snake Parrot Snake Cat-Eyed Snake Brown House Snake Aurora House Snake Californian Mountain Kingsnake Sinaloan Milksnake Honduran Milksnake Pueblan Milksnake Sonoran Mountain Milksnake Grey Banded Kingsnake Mexican Kingsnake Speckled Kingsnake Californian Kingsnake Prairie Kingsnake Slender Vine Snake Spotted Night Snake Southern Hognose Snake Eastern Hognose Snake Western Hognose Snake Red Tailed Racer False Coral Snake Fox Snake Leopard Snake Corn Snake Mangrove Snake Paradise Tree Snake Indigo Snake Boomslang Snake
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