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Common Terms

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Here’s a list of commonly found terms among owners of pet snakes. By no means is it an exhaustive list, but it is being add to on a regular basis. If you have any suggestions for more terms we’d be glad to hear from you!

  1. 3 numbers separated by a decimal (0.0.0)

  2. Allele

  3. Amelanistic (aka amel)

  4. Anerythristic (aka: anery)

  5. Antivenin (also antivenom or antivenene)

  6. Arboreal

  7. Axanthic

  8. Bask

  9. Boid

  10. Boidae

  11. Brumation

  12. Caudal

  13. Colubrid

  14. CITES

  15. Cloaca

  16. Clutch

  17. Co-dominant trait

  18. Crepuscular

  19. Diurnal

  20. Dominant trait

  21. Ectotherm

  22. Elapidae (elapids)

  23. Heat Pit

  24. Hemotoxic

  25. Hide

  26. Heterozygous

  27. Homozygous

  28. Hot

  29. Hypomelanistic

  30. Jacobson's (vomeronasal) Organ

  31. Keeled Scales

  32. Leptotyphlopidae

  33. Melanistic

  34. Neurotoxic

  35. Nocturnal

  36. Obligate Carnivore

  37. Oviparous

  38. Phenotype

  39. Punnett square

  40. Pythonidae

  41. Recessive trait

  42. Subcaudal

  43. Substrate

  44. Terrestrial

  45. Thermal gradient

  46. Thermoregulate

  47. Urates

  48. Vent

  49. Viperidae (viperids)

  50. Viviparous

  51. Wild type

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