Snake scales

This page aggregates various images and diagrams showing snake scales.

Snake scale diagrams

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

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
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  Rat snake
  Ptyas mucosus
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  Chequered Keelback
  Xenochrophis piscator

Close-ups of snake scales

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  Elaborately shaped
  scales on the head of a
  Vine snake
  Ahaetulla nasuta.
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  Enlarged vertebral scales
  of Banded Krait
  Bungarus fasciatus,
  an elapid.
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  Keeled scales of
  Buff-striped keelback
  Amphiesma stolatum,
  a colubrid.
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  Modified tail scales
  form a rattle on a
  Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
  Crotalus atrox.
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  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.
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    Colubrid scalation: Side view of scales of Grass snake Natrix natrix.
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  Scales on the skin of an unidentified serpent used to make a cigarette case, ca 1925