Toscead betweox fadungum "Snaca"

'''Snacan''' sind langlice, sceanlēase, [[flǣscetend]]a [[āðexe|āðexan]] þæs unsderhādes '''Serpentes''' þe cann wesanƿesan geset gesundrod fram [[sceanclēas āðexe|sceanclēasum āðexum]] þurh heora þearf ēaghringa and ūtweardraūtƿeardra ēarena. Gelīce eallum [[scielled āðexe|scielledum āðexum]] sind snacan [[ūtanhātod]], [[innoþfilmened]] [[hrycgdēor]] geþeaht mid oferlicgendum [[sciell (dēorāre)|sciellum]]. Manig cynn snacena habbaþ [[hēafodbolla]]n mid manigum mārum bānhlocum þonne āðexan, þe lǣtþ hīe tō swelgennesƿelgenne hȳðdēor swīðesƿīðe māran þonne heora hēafdas mid [[swīðe wegendlic ceafl|swīðesƿīðe wegendlicumƿegendlicum ceafle]]. Tō lǣtenne heora nearu līc, snacena twinlicutƿinlicu līcdǣl (swelcesƿelce cropas) standaþ ān ætforan ōðrum on stede ǣlc be ōðrum, and þæt mǣste dǣl snacena habbaþ efne āne wyrcendeƿyrcende [[lungen]]e. Sumu cynn healdaþ [[nafelbeltbān]] mid twinnessetƿinnesse unnyttra clāwaclāƿa on ǣlcre sīde þæs earses.

Lifigende snacan wuniaþƿuniaþ on eallum hēafodlicum worulddǣlumƿorulddǣlum būton Antarctice and on þǣm mǣstum dǣle īega. Fīftīene [[cnēoris (līflāre)|cnēorisa]] sind nū oncnāwenoncnāƿen þe habbaþ 456 [[cnōsl]]a and māran þonne 2,900 [[cynn (līflāre)|cynna]].<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS|ID=174118|taxon=Serpentes|year=2008|date=3 December}}</ref><ref name="NRDB-Cs">[http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?taxon=Colubridae&genus=&species=&subspecies=&author=&year=&common_name=&location=&holotype=&reference=&submit=Search Colubridae species list] at the [http://reptile-database.org/ TIGR Reptile Database]. Accessed 4 December 2008.</ref> Hīe sind on micelnesse fram swīðesƿīðe smæl, se 10&nbsp;huntoðena metera langa [[Leptotyphlops carlae|þrǣdsnaca]], oþ [[pythonidae|pyþþenas]] and [[fæðmsnaca]]n swāsƿā grēate swāsƿā 7.6 metera lange. Þæt nīwannīƿan gefundne stānbȳsen [[Titanoboa]] wæsƿæs 15 metera lang.

Þæt mǣste dǣl cynna sind unāttorbǣr and hīe þā habbaþ āttor brūcaþ hit hēafodlīce tō cwellennecƿellenne and abegenne hȳþdēor ǣr þonne tō beorgenne selfe. Sumu cynn habbaþ āttor þe is strang genōg tō sārlīce awerdenneaƿerdenne oþþe [[dēaþ|tō cwellennecƿellenne]] [[mann|menn]]. Þā þe sind unāttorbǣr oþþe ge swelgiaþsƿelgiaþ hȳþdēor cwiccƿic oþþe cwellaþcƿellaþ hit it þurh [[fæðmung]]e.