Most stout-bodied snake?

[AndrewM1217]

Was just curious as to what some species of snakes are that have short, heavy bodies, or just a large width in proportion to their length. Off the top of my head I can think of Blood Pythons and sand boas.

[Cmwells90]

Would Hognose fall under this term? Not sure how Stout they are, definitly not like a Blood Python, but still pretty bulky!

[CK SandBoas]

Adult Hognose are definitely stout bodied snakes, along with Sand Boas and of course Blood Pythons...I saw some truly beautiful, huge adult female albino Hognose at the last show I went to, they were awesome!

[Georgia]

Gaboon Viper hands down

[Cmwells90]

I've never seen an adult Hognose, I have a 4 month old right now and they're tiny and they don't get that big anyway, but yea they are pretty stocky guys!

[shaunyboy]

so folks.....

what snake species has the largest girth of all ?

i'm thinking Anaconda or Retic ?


can anyone point me in the direction of some good solid information on which species can attain the largest girth of all ?


cheers shaun

[Tsubaki]

Anaconda is the heaviest snake, shorter than retics but definitely heavier and thicker. But a bloodpython or gaboon of the same length, would be way thicker :)

[AndrewM1217]

Yeah gaboons are super fat snakes haha like sausages. Deadly, deadly sausages...

[marvelfreak]

Dumeril and Madagascar Ground Boas. Not quite as fat as bloods but close.