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Squirrel trailing a puff adder while sounding an alarm call to warn others. Normally a sluggish species, the puff adder relies on camouflage for protection. Locomotion is primarily rectilinear, using the broad ventral scales in a caterpillar fashion and aided by its own weight for traction. When agitated, it can resort to a typical serpentine ...
A series of dark crimson triangles run down the flanks, narrowly bordered with green or blue. Many of the lateral scales have white tips, giving the snake a velvety appearance. The top of the head is blue or green, overlaid with a distinct black arrow mark. The belly is dull green to dirty white, strongly marbled and blotched in black and gray ...
Puff adder (Bitis arietans) The Puff adder (Bitis arietans) is responsible for more fatalities than any other African snake. This is due to a combination of factors, including its wide distribution, common occurrence, large size, potent venom that is produced in large amounts, long fangs, their habit of basking by footpaths and sitting quietly ...
Bitis is a genus of vipers found in Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. [1] It includes the largest and the smallest vipers in the world. Members are known for their characteristic threat displays that involve inflating and deflating their bodies while hissing and puffing loudly. [2]
The coral snake has black and red rings, separated by smaller yellow rings; hence, the “red touches yellow” rhyme. Habitat: Coastal Plains; they love sandy soils and underground burrows or holes.
A snake expert determined from the size of the bite that Gaboury had likely been bitten by a diamondback rattler. [96] December 29, 1971 Bryan L. Bristow, 28, male: Cottonmouth: Louisiana — Bristow had been collecting snakes in a bag when he was bitten on the hand by a cottonmouth moccasin in Garyville, on December 29, 1971. [97]
The snake's common names include Gaboon viper, butterfly adder, forest puff adder, whisper, [5] swampjack, [5] and Gaboon adder. [4] [10] Originally a name given by the Portuguese, Gabon (Gabão) refers to the estuary on which the town of Libreville was built, in Gabon, and to a narrow strip of territory on either bank of this arm of the sea.
This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note that the snakes are grouped by name, and in some cases the grouping may have no scientific basis. Contents: