page_title: Amphibia in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
section_title: Serpentes
hierarchical_section_title: Amphibia in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae / Serpentes
caption_attribution_description: Amphisbaena alba
context_page_description: In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus described the Amphibia as:
  Animals that are distinguished by a body cold and generally naked; stern and expressive countenance; harsh voice; mostly lurid color; filthy odor; a few are furnished with a horrid poison; all have cartilaginous bones, slow circulation, exquisite sight and hearing, large pulmonary vessels, lobate liver, oblong thick stomach, and cystic, hepatic, and pancreatic ducts: they are deficient in diaphragm, do not transpire, can live a long time without food, are tenatious of life, and have the power of reproducing parts which have been destroyed or lost; some undergo a metamorphosis; some cast their skin; some appear to live promiscuously on land or in the water, and some are torpid during the winter.
  Linnaean characteristics
  Heart: 1 auricle, 1 ventricle. Cold, dark red blood
  Lungs: breathes uncertainly
  Jaw: incumbent
  Penis: double
  Eggs: membranaceous
  Organs of Sense: tongue, nostrils, eyes, ears
  Covering: a naked skin
  Supports: various, in some none. Creeps in warm places and hisses
context_section_description: Crotalus (rattlesnakes)
  Crotalus horridus – Crotalus horridus
  Crotalus dryinas & Crotalus durissus – Crotalus durissus
  Boa (boas)
  Boa murina & Boa scytale – Eunectes murinus, anaconda
  Boa canina & Boa hypnale – Corallus caninus, emerald tree boa
  Boa constrictor & Boa orophias – Boa constrictor
  Boa cenchria – Epicrates cenchria
  Boa enydris & Boa hortulana – Corallus hortulanus
  Coluber (racers, vipers & cobras)
  Coluber vipera – Cerastes vipera
  Coluber atropos – Bitis atropos
  Coluber leberis – [suppressed]
  Coluber lutrix – Duberria lutrix
  Coluber calamarius – Oligodon calamarius
  Coluber constrictor – Coluber constrictor
  Coluber ammodytes – Vipera ammodytes
  Coluber cerastes – Cerastes cerastes
  Coluber plicatilis – Pseudoeryx plicatilis
  Coluber domicella – Liophis poecilogyrus
  Coluber alidras – perhaps Helicops angulatus
  Coluber buccatus – Homalopsis buccata
  Coluber angulatus – Helicops angulatus
  Coluber berus & Coluber chersea – Vipera berus
  Coluber caeruleus – [nomen dubium]
  Coluber albus – Brachyorrhus albus
  Coluber aspis – Vipera aspis
  Coluber typhlus – Liophis typhlus
  Coluber lebetinus – Macrovipera lebetina
  Coluber melanocephalus – Tantilla melanocephala
  Coluber cobella – Liophis cobella
  Coluber reginae – Leimadophis reginae
  Coluber severus – Xenodon severus
  Coluber aurora – Lamprophis aurora
  Coluber sipedon – Nerodia sipedon, northern water snake
  Coluber maurus – Natrix maura
  Coluber stolatus – Amphiesma stolatum, buff-striped keelback
  Coluber vittatus – Xenochrophis vittatus, striped keelback
  Coluber miliaris – Liophis miliaris
  Coluber rhombeatus – Psamnophylax rhombeatus
  Coluber cyaneus – [nomen dubium]
  Coluber natrix – Natrix natrix, grass snake
  Coluber aesculapii & Coluber agilis – Erythrolamprus aesculapii
  Coluber lacteus – Homoroselaps lacteus
  Coluber aulicus – Lycodon aulicus, Indian wolf snake
  Coluber monilis – [nomen dubium]
  Coluber pallidus – Thamnodynastes pallidus
  Coluber lineatus – Liophis lineatus
  Coluber naja – Naja naja, Indian cobra
  Coluber padera – [nomen dubium]
  Coluber canus – Pseudaspis cana, mole snake
  Coluber sibilans – Psammophis sibilans
  Coluber laticaudatus – Laticauda laticaudata
  Coluber sirtalis – Thamnophis sirtalis, common garter snake
  Coluber atrox – Bothrops atrox
  Coluber sibon & Coluber nebulatus – Sibon nebulatus, clouded snake
  Coluber fuscus & Coluber saturninus – Chironius fuscus
  Coluber candidus – Bungarus candidus
  Coluber niveus – Naja haje, Egyptian cobra
  Coluber scaber – Dasypeltis scabra, common egg-eater
  Coluber carinatus – Chironius carinatus, machete savane
  Coluber corallinus – Liophis triscalis
  Coluber ovivorus – perhaps Pantherophis vulpinus, fox snake
  Coluber exoletus – Chironius exoletus
  Coluber situla – Zamenis situla, European ratsnake
  Coluber triscalis – Liophis triscalis
  Coluber lemniscatus – Micrurus lemniscatus
  Coluber annulatus – Leptodeira annulata, machete savane
  Coluber dipsas – [nomen dubium]
  Coluber pelias – Chrysopelea pelias, banded flying snake
  Coluber tyria – [nomen dubium]
  Coluber jugularis – Coluber jugularis
  Coluber petola – Oxyrhopus petolarius
  Coluber molurus – Python molurus
  Coluber ahaetulla – Leptophis ahaetulla
  Coluber petolarius – Oxyrhopus petolarius
  Coluber haje – Naja haje, Egyptian cobra
  Coluber filiformis – [nomen dubium]
  Coluber pullatus – Spilotes pullatus, tigre
  Coluber hippocrepis – Hemorrhois hippocrepis, horseshoe whip snake
  Coluber minervae – Liophis lineatus
  Coluber cinereus – perhaps Liophis cobella
  Coluber viridissimus – Philodryas viridissima
  Coluber mucosus – Ptyas mucosa
  Coluber cenchoa – Imantodes cenchoa
  Coluber mycterizans – Ahaetulla mycterizans
  Coluber caerulescens – [nomen dubium]
  Coluber arges – [mythical]
  Anguis (slowworms & worm snakes)
  Anguis bipes – Scelotes bipes
  Anguis meleagris – Acontias meleagris
  Anguis colubrina – Gongylophis colubrinus, Egyptian sand boa
  Anguis jaculus & Anguis cerastes – Eryx jaculus, javelin sand boa
  Anguis maculata – Cylindrophis maculatus, Ceylonese cylinder snake
  Anguis reticulata – Typhlops reticulatus, reticulate worm snake
  Anguis lumbricalis – Typhlops lumbricalis, earthworm worm snake
  
caption: The red worm lizard was named Amphisbaena alba in 1758.
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