Nonpoisonous snakes
In the most common type of snake movement—serpentine movement—the snake presses its body against the ground, producing both sideways and backwords thrust.
Among the 144 species of nonpoisonous snakes (ular) of Malaysia, belonging to six families, are many which play an important role in controlling the rat and snake populations in both forests and cultivated areas.They range from the smallest worm-like blind snakes about 15 centimetres long to the second largest snake in the world, the reticulated python, which can reach 10 metres. Some are very colourful; the coloration of other species blends with their habitat.
- Information in the full article includes
- Blind snakes
- Pipe snakes
- Sunbeam snake
- Water snakes
- Colubrid snakes