# The Snakes of Europe

Author: Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937

Genre: Category: Science - Biology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46590

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Snakes+of+Europe+Boulenger&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Snakes, _Ophidia_--regarded by some authorities as an order of the class _Reptilia_, by the author as a sub-order of the order _Squamata_, which includes besides the Lizards, _Lacertilia_, the Chameleons, _Rhiptoglossa_, and the extinct _Dolichosauria_ and _Mosasauria_--may be defined as greatly elongate scaly Reptiles without limbs, or with mere vestiges of the hind pair, without movable eyelids, without ear-opening, with elongate, deeply forked tongue retractile into a basal sheath, with transverse vent and paired copulatory organs, and with the two halves of the lower jaw independently movable, connected at the symphysis by an elastic ligament.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snakes-of-europe-46590/chapters/7/index.md)