Anyone who is new to the world of snakes can often feel overwhelmed by the terms used by veteran snake keepers. In this section of pet-snakes.com you will find a comprehensive (though not exhaustive) list of commonly used terms. We add to it on a regular basis as new terms are created or come to our attention. If you have a suggestion for a term please send us an email and we will be more than happy to consider it. Also if you discover any mistakes in our current list of terms we would appreciate hearing from you so we can correct the error.

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. CITES

14. Cloaca

15. Clutch

16. Co-dominant trait

17. Colubrid

18. Crepuscular

19. Diurnal

20. Dominant trait

21. Ectotherm

22. Elapidae (elapids)

23. Garden Snake

24. Heat Pit

25. Hemotoxic

26. Hide

27. Heterozygous

28. Homozygous

29. Hot

30. Hypomelanistic

31. Jacobson's (vomeronasal) Organ

32. Keeled Scales

33. Leptotyphlopidae

34. Melanistic

35. Milking

36. Neurotoxic

37. Nocturnal

38. Obligate Carnivore

39. Oviparous

40. Ovoviviparous (ovoviviparity)

41. Phenotype

42. Poison

43. Punnett square

44. Pythonidae

45. Leucistic

46. Recessive trait

47. Snake hook

48. Subcaudal

49. Substrate

50. Terrestrial

51. Thermal gradient

52. Thermoregulate

53. Urates

54. Venom

55. Vent

56. Viperidae (viperids)

57. Viviparous

58. Wild type