Ludovics

(Micrurus mipartitus) Red-tailed coral snake

Venom Characteristics: Few bites of humans recorded; however, venom highly cytotoxic. May cause massive swelling & tissue necrosis. Tissue necrosis resulting in amputation has been reported.

Adults usually 40-60 cm long (max. 80 cm). Body color varies from dusky pale green to olive, to olive brown, or reddish brown. Belly pale yellow; sometimes pale green, & often thickly spotted w/ black. Some specimens w/ pale yellow crossbands. Scales keeled & their tips usually projecting away from the body, giving the snake a “rough,” rasp-like appearance.

Venom likely hemotoxic, but not well studied. Considered nonlethal to man. No known specific antivenom currently produced.

Jerdon’s red spotted pit viper (Trimeresurus jerdoni xanthomelas)

Mexico in southwestern Michoacán, southern and western Morelos, Guerrero, and southwestern Oaxaca, probably in extreme western Puebla and possibly in the Mexican Federal District

Mangrove Pit Viper by kristianbell http://500px.com/photo/54826578

Python brongersmai

Venom not well characterized; as w/ other spitting cobras, venom may be more cytotoxic than neurotoxic in effect. Effectiveness of available anitvenoms is not known.

Dusky pygmy rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri)

Silver Arrow - Lincoln x Denton line, anery Long Tail boa (Boa i. longicauda)

(Crotalus oreganus cerberus) Arizona black rattlesnake

Known to aggressively pursue potential threats.

(Trimeresurus sumatranus malcolmi) Malcolm’s pitviper, Malcolm’s tree viper, Mt. Kinabalu pit viper