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Abstract
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Permanent and temporary zoological specimens such as snakes in natural history museums, as an important resource for natural history information, can play a direct role in improving public education and knowledge of zoology and also presentation quality. Natural History Museum of Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamedan (Iran) was typically ornamented with approximately 73 venomous, semivenomous, non-venomous terrestrial, aquatic snake and also venomous sea snake exhibition specimens belonging to different families (Elapidae, Natricidae, Psammophiidae, Typhlopidae and Viperidae). The scientific and common names of the specimens are as below: Elapidae Hydrophis cyanocinctus Daudin, 1803: Annulated Sea Snake Naja oxiana (Eichwald, 1831): Central Asian Cobra Pelamis platura (Linnaeus, 1766): Yellowbelly Sea Snake Natricidae Natrix natrix (L., 1758): European Grass Snake Natrix tessellata (Laurenti, 1768): Dice Snake Psammophiidae Malpolon monspessulanus (Hermann, 1804): Montpellier Snake Typhlopidae Typhlops vermicularis Merrem, 1820: European Worm Snake Viperidae Cerastes cerastes L., 1758: Desert Horned Viper Echis carinatus sochureki Stemmler, 1969: Saw-Scaled Viper Gloydius intermedius (Strauch, 1868): Central Asian Pitviper Macrovipera lebetina obtusa (Dwigubsky, 1832): Levantine Viper Montivipera latifi (Mertens, Darevsky & Klemmer, 1967): Latifi’s Viper Pseudocerastes persicus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854): Perisan Horned Viper Vipera albicornuta Nilson & Andrén, 1985: Zigzag Mountain Viper Vipera berus (L., 1758): Common European Adder Vipera ursini erewanensis (Reuss, 1933) Vipera raddei kurdistanica Nilson & Andrén 1986 Vipera aspis (L., 1758): Asp Viper
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