''Heteroliodon'' is a

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snake Snakes are elongated, Limbless vertebrate, limbless, carnivore, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other Squamata, squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping Scale (zoology), scales. Ma ...

in the pseudoxyrhophiid family found only on the island of

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. They are harmless to humans.

Species

Three

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are currently recognized. * ''

Heteroliodon fohy ''Heteroliodon'' is a genus of snake in the pseudoxyrhophiid family found only on the island of Madagascar. They are harmless to humans. Species Three species are currently recognized. * '' Heteroliodon fohy'' - Glaw, Vences, & Nussbaum, 2 ...

'' - Glaw, Vences, & Nussbaum, 2005 * ''

Heteroliodon lava ''Heteroliodon'' is a genus of snake in the pseudoxyrhophiid family found only on the island of Madagascar. They are harmless to humans. Species Three species are currently recognized. * ''Heteroliodon fohy'' - Glaw, Vences, & Nussbaum, 20 ...

'' - Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 2000 * '' Heteroliodon occipitalis'' - (

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, 1896)

References

* ;Notes Snake genera Taxa named by Oskar Boettger Reptiles of Madagascar Pseudoxyrhophiidae {{Madagascar-stub