Snake scales
This page aggregates various images and diagrams showing snake scales.
Snake scale diagrams [edit]
These diagrams are the work of AshLin.
- Buff-striped Keelback Amphiesma stoalata
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Side view of snake's head
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Front view of snake's head
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Bottom view of snake's head
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Underside, ie, belly of a snake
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Side view of snake's head (German)
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Front view of snake's head (German)
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Bottom view of snake's head (German)
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Underside, ie, belly of a snake (German)
- Other snakes.
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Identification characteristics of Yellow-spotted Wolf snake Lycodon jara.
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Amphiesma monticola with scale tags
Line diagrams of scales for identification [edit]
These diagrams have been taken from Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma - Reptilia and Batrachia by G. A. Boulenger(1890) and are the work of Shyamal. They are in the public domain due to their copyright having expired.
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John's Earth Boa
Eryx johnii -
Rat snake
Ptyas mucosus -
Chequered Keelback
Xenochrophis piscator
Close-ups of snake scales [edit]
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Elaborately shaped
scales on the head of a
Vine snake
Ahaetulla nasuta. -
Enlarged vertebral scales
of Banded Krait
Bungarus fasciatus,
an elapid. -
Keeled scales of
Buff-striped keelback
Amphiesma stolatum,
a colubrid. -
Modified tail scales
form a rattle on a
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
Crotalus atrox. -
Cycloid scales on Leptotyphlops humilis.
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Brille seen on the eye of Chequered Keelback Xenochrophis piscator.
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Undivided anal scale of Banded Krait Bungarus fasciatus, an elapid.
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Divided anal scale of Rat snake Ptyas mucosus, a colubrid.
