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front or rear fanged ?

jimfmcdonald Jul 16, 2006 09:01 PM

would you call this front fanged or rear fanged?

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joeysgreen Jul 17, 2006 07:27 AM

The catagory "rear fanged" kinda lumps a tonne of very different animals just like the catagory "colubrid". Many of these snakes have fangs in the mid-region, and even, like Aetulla prasinus (spelling?) have front AND rear fangs.

Find more out at www.venomdoc.com

Ian

WW Jul 18, 2006 04:08 AM

Actually, it's almost hinge-fanged - in some xenodontines, such as Heterodon, Xenodon, Waglerophis ad others, the fangs are at the back of the maxilla, but the maxilla can swing forward to bring the fang into a very anterior position, as shown in the photo.

It dos illustrate the diversity of venom delivery systems among "colubrids", and the futility of pigeonholing them into "opisthoglyphous" and "aglyphous".

Cheers,

WW
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