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corn teeth? rear fang?
- Thread starter Amdek
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robertwallace
Corns Rock
Thats a really cool pic
CooterJohannson
Nascar fan
Corns not included
Cav is right on tha money. Rear-fanged snakes are classified as opisthoglyphous snakes. Da group includes boomslangs (Dispholidus typus) whicha been known ta kill folks. Other rear-fanged snakes include long-nosed tree snakes, mangrove snakes, lyre snakes, and hognoses of North America, and cat snakes of Europe and Africa.
I cover tha rear-fangs in Chapter 5 of my book, Herpin with Cooter.
Cav is right on tha money. Rear-fanged snakes are classified as opisthoglyphous snakes. Da group includes boomslangs (Dispholidus typus) whicha been known ta kill folks. Other rear-fanged snakes include long-nosed tree snakes, mangrove snakes, lyre snakes, and hognoses of North America, and cat snakes of Europe and Africa.
I cover tha rear-fangs in Chapter 5 of my book, Herpin with Cooter.
Joejr14
Grand Bubble Burster
CooterJohannson said:Cav is right on tha money. Rear-fanged snakes are classified as opisthoglyphous snakes. Da group includes boomslangs (Dispholidus typus) whicha been known ta kill folks. Other rear-fanged snakes include long-nosed tree snakes, mangrove snakes, lyre snakes, and hognoses of North America, and cat snakes of southern Europe and Africa.
I cover tha rear-fangs in Chapter 5 of my book, Herpin with Cooter.
Well no sh*t. I didnt know Hognoses had rear fangs. Learn something new everyday!
Quigs
"Got R Did"
Kind of off topic...
Most if not all of the front fangs in venomous snakes are hollow, thus they use this to inject venom in their prey.
Not sure about the rest of the rear fangers but western hognose fangs are not hollow and do not inject venom. I'm sure there is a term for this but I can't recall of the top of my head.
Hoggies "venom" come from saliva glands, much like gila monsters. Wild type hoggies main prey are toads and toads tend to puff up when threatened. The rear fangs help to "deflate" toads as well as hold them in their mouths whilest chewing on them and envemoning their prey.
Note: A hognose bite is much like a bee or wasp sting in the fact that their venom effects different people in different ways. I have seen pictures of very nasty hoggie bites where whole arms and shoulders swell up. Others it's meerly a "normal" snake bite with a small amount of swelling if anything.
Nice pics btw, Amdek. Yes corns have teeth but not fangs.
Most if not all of the front fangs in venomous snakes are hollow, thus they use this to inject venom in their prey.
Not sure about the rest of the rear fangers but western hognose fangs are not hollow and do not inject venom. I'm sure there is a term for this but I can't recall of the top of my head.
Hoggies "venom" come from saliva glands, much like gila monsters. Wild type hoggies main prey are toads and toads tend to puff up when threatened. The rear fangs help to "deflate" toads as well as hold them in their mouths whilest chewing on them and envemoning their prey.
Note: A hognose bite is much like a bee or wasp sting in the fact that their venom effects different people in different ways. I have seen pictures of very nasty hoggie bites where whole arms and shoulders swell up. Others it's meerly a "normal" snake bite with a small amount of swelling if anything.
Nice pics btw, Amdek. Yes corns have teeth but not fangs.
Tim Madsen
New member
Quigs said:
Actually Hognose have duvernoy glands not saliva which produces a mild venom. They do not have rear fangs in the traditional sense (hollow used to inject venom) but inlarged teeth in the rear of their mouths. A few studies have now been done on Hognose diet. It has been found that about 50% of their diet is amphibians. The rest consists of rodents, lizards, birds and other snakes. The idea that they use their inlarged rear teeth to deflate toads has pretty much been discounted. There is more disinformation on the web about Hognose than any other snake.