Snakes, like other reptiles, have skin covered in scales. Snakes are entirely covered with scales or scutes of various shapes and sizes, known as snakeskin...

lizards, or modified elaborately, as in the case of snakes. The scales on the top of lizard and snake heads has also been called pileus, after the Latin...

commonly known as the western taipan, small-scaled snake, or fierce snake, is a species of extremely venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is...

The eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis), often referred to as the common brown snake, is a species of extremely venomous snake in the family Elapidae...

genetic analysis showed that the closest relative of the tiger snakes is the rough-scaled snake (Tropidechis carinatus). The two extensively recognized species...

The rough-scaled snake (Tropidechis carinatus) is a highly venomous Australian elapid. The animal's name comes from its scales that are raised above the...

a live snake, the shed skin of a snake after molting, or to a type of leather that is made from the hide of a dead snake. Snakeskin and scales can have...

arrangement of scales on a snake's body are a key element of identification to species level. The red-bellied black snake has 17 rows of dorsal scales at midbody...

amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales much like other members of the group. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than...

garter snakes are highly variable in appearance; generally, they have large round eyes with rounded pupils, a slender build, keeled scales (appearing...

and are preceded by the anal scale. Anal scale Ventral scales Snake scales Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada...

transparent scale that covers and protects the eye. It is formed in embryonic snakes when the transparent upper and lower eyelids fuse. Once hatched, a snake does...

De Kay's brown snake, De Kay's snake, and simply the brown snake (along with many other snakes), is a small non-venomous species of snake in the family...

the beak. In snakes and reptiles, a loreal scale also refers to the scales which lie between the eye and the nostril. In crotaline snakes (pit vipers)...

animals Fish scale Reptile scale Snake scale Scale (dermatology), a secondary skin lesion in humans that resembles animal scales Scale (insect anatomy)...

the forehead. Snake scales adjacent to the frontal and to its anterior are called prefrontals. Frontal bone Frontal shield Snake scales Anatomical terms...

In snakes, the dorsal scales are the longitudinal series of plates that encircle the body, but do not include the ventral scales. When counting dorsal...

The rostral scale, or rostral, in snakes and other scaled reptiles is the median plate on the tip of the snout that borders the mouth opening. It corresponds...

Supralabial scales Rostral scale Mental scale Labial scales Snake scales Anatomical terms of location Wikimedia Commons has media related to Labial scales. Wright...

In snakes, the anal scale or anal plate is the scale just in front of and covering the cloacal opening. This scale can be either single ("anal entire")...

Sea snakes, or coral reef snakes, are elapid snakes that inhabit marine environments for most or all of their lives. They belong to two subfamilies, Hydrophiinae...

The labial scales are the scales of snakes and other scaled reptiles that border the mouth opening. These do not include the median scales on the upper...

In snakes, the ventral scales or gastrosteges are the enlarged and transversely elongated scales that extend down the underside of the body from the neck...

yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus) is a highly venomous species of snake from the subfamily Hydrophiinae (the sea snakes) found in tropical...

sources maintain that the corn snake is so-named because the distinctive, nearly-checkered pattern of the snake's belly scales resembles the kernels of variegated...

Sublabial scales Rostral scale Mental scale Labial scales Snake scales Anatomical terms of location Wikimedia Commons has media related to Labial scales. Wright...

grass snake. It is a slender, "small medium" snake that measures 36–51 cm (14–20 in) as an adult. It gets its common name from its smooth dorsal scales, as...

each year. The snakes are: Russell's viper, Daboia russelii Common krait, Bungarus caeruleus Indian cobra, Naja naja Indian saw-scaled viper, Echis carinatus...

commonly known as the Oriental rat snake, dhaman or Indian rat snake, is a common non-venomous species of colubrid snake found in parts of South and Southeast...

genials scales on a snake are scales found on the underside of the snake's head towards the anterior and touching the lower labial scales. Chin shields...