![]() even Wandering Gartersnakes ( Thamnophis elegans)-sometimes! (more below).some snail-eating snakes ( Dipsas) coil around snails as they pry them out of their shells.the colubrine colubrid tribe Lycodontini (mostly wolf snakes, genus Lycodon).some lamprophiine colubrids (especially the well-known African house snakes Lamprophis and Boaedon).Filesnakes (genus Acrochordus), which don't necessarily kill fish by constricting them but use their coils to hold them while they swallow.At least some (maybe all) Asian pipesnakes (family Cylindrophiidae).Two speceis of Asian sunbeam snakes (genus Xenopeltis), which are also closely related to pythons.Loxocemus bicolor, the Mexican burrowing snake, a close relative of pythons.Their close relative Anilius scytale (sort of this snake has been observed to constrict large prey such as amphisbaenians).Tropidophiidsor "dwarf boas", which are not closely related to boids and certainly evolved constriction independently (34 species).26 species of Old World Elaphe and their relatives in the genera Zamenis, Orthriophis, Oreocryptophis, Euprepiophis, and Archelaphe.Īnilius scytale constricting an amphisbaenian.2 species of live-bearing Eurasian Coronella and their close relative, the Frog-eating Rat Snake Oocatochus rufodorsatus from eastern Russia, Korea, Taiwan, and northeastern China.Pantherophis ratsnakes, as well as their sister taxon Pituophis (pine, bull, and gophersnakes), which often press their prey against rocks or other solid objects.southwestern North American species in the genera Pseudelaphe, Arizona, Rhinocheilus, Bogertophis, and Senticolis.Lampropeltis kingsnakes, the consummate constrictors, which prey on other constricting snakes and are rarely, if ever, out-constricted because they are capable of exerting 20 kilopascals of pressure, twice as much as a ratsnake (average 10 kPa). ![]() Ratsnakes, kingsnakes, and close relatives: 43 species of New World colubrine colubrids in the clade Lampropeltini and their Old World counterparts, including:.Pythons: 40 species from Africa, Asia, and Australia. ![]()
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