Meanings

Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus)

reticulated python (Python reticulatus)

sanshin

albino Japanese rat snake

paper umbrella (with a bull's-eye design)

eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent (in Japanese mythology)

God only knows what may happen

the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)

boa (snake)

king snake (any snake of genus Lampropeltis)

milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)

torture in which the victim is bound and placed in a tub of snakes

satyrid (any butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae, esp. the dryad, Minois dryas)

Russell's viper (Daboia russelii)

erratic driving

krait (esp. the Taiwanese banded krait, Bungarus multicinctus)

scaly worm shell (Serpulorbis imbricatus)

Enneapterygius etheostomus (species of threefin blenny)