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Originally Posted by reptiledude987
Boomslangs keep being being mentioned as rear fanged. However their fangs arent in the same location as the other species being refered to here. Boomslangs fangs are actually in a more central position on the jaw. Basically right unger their eye. So yes theyre not front fanged like elapids and viperids but theyre not really rearfanged like hoggies and vine snakes either.
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Boomslangs are Opisthoglyphous same as all rear-fanged colubrids. Rear-fanged is really a bit of a misnomer, as you have noted the fangs are located near the middle of the jaw. Google pictures of Hognose and Boomslangs, you will see fangs are basically in the same position in the jaw. For example,
here is a Boomslang, and
here is a Hognose.
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