hi everyone!

i'm new here and i'm not very clued up on snakes.i love them and respect them but when it comes to my knowledge about them i only really know stuff about corn snakes!! .

so i met someone a few weeks ago and she told me her son had bought a false cobra, is there such a thing? if so then are they still poinsonous or not?.

sorry for the stupid question, i need to learn more about snakes

Hydrodynastes gigas, False Water Cobra
Hydrodynastes gigas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well they arent cobras, so they are not trying to fake anything, in that case you can call hognose snakes fake snouted cobras ;)
Its just a name.

For instance there are also "fake" cornsnakes, pseudelaphe.
CalPhotos: Pseudelaphe flavirufus flavirufus; Tamaulipan Ratsnake

Its a good question though but many popular names of snakes are misleading.
They snake he bought was probably a Hydronastes. Not dangerous to human but it is in fact venomous (rear fanged).

the brazilian smooth snake otherwise knows as a false water cobra, these are still venomous although rear fanged but should not be taken lightly, they can be aggresive and are very fast moving snakes especially when feeding, defo not a snake for a beginner

thats interesting! thanks everyone, if it's not a good snake for a beginner then i won't be getting one lol.

thanks :)

As said above...

Or, another example of a "fake" cobra would be a Venomoid specimen...

I quote from one of my lifelong idols, Mark O'Shea:

__________________
DISCLAIMER: "I have very limited reptile keeping experience, therefore any information I offer has been obtained from other sources such as Books and the internet, or other people. I have never kept, or handled a venomous reptile currently."

I just got the sack from Pepsi.......I tested positive for Coke!

a cobra is a cobra if it has venom glands or not, just because it cant envenomate you doesnt make it a different species

I didn't say it was a different species.

__________________
DISCLAIMER: "I have very limited reptile keeping experience, therefore any information I offer has been obtained from other sources such as Books and the internet, or other people. I have never kept, or handled a venomous reptile currently."

I just got the sack from Pepsi.......I tested positive for Coke!

well its not a fake cobra then is it?

Stop being perdantic.

Cobras either were created with venom, or evolved venom somewhere down the line. To take that away, suggests to me that it is not the real deal. I never said a venomoid specimen is a completely different species, so please quote me where I did. I'd be delighted to see what you can come up with. :-)

__________________
DISCLAIMER: "I have very limited reptile keeping experience, therefore any information I offer has been obtained from other sources such as Books and the internet, or other people. I have never kept, or handled a venomous reptile currently."

I just got the sack from Pepsi.......I tested positive for Coke!