Yellow Bellied Sea Snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Yellow-bellied sea snake Pelamis platurus Description: Upper part of body is black or dark brown...
Yellow-bellied sea snake Pelamis platurus Description: Upper part of body is black or dark brown...
Banded sea snake Laticauda colubrina Description: Smooth-scaled snake that is a pale shade of blue...
Tiger snake Notechis scutatus Description: Olive to dark brown above with yellowish or olive belly...
Taipan Oxyuranus scutellatus Description: Generally uniformly olive or dark brown, with a somewhat darker brown...
Death adder Acanthophis antarcticus Description: Reddish, yellowish, or brown color with distinct dark brown crossbands....
Wagler’s pit viper or temple viper Trimeresurus wagleri Description: Green with white crossbands edged with...
Saw-scaled viper Echis carinatus Description: Color is light buff with shades of brown, dull red,...
Sand viper Cerastes vipera Description: Usually uniformly very pallid, with three rows of darker brown...
Russell’s viper Vipera russellii Description: Light brown body with three rows of dark brown or...
Rhinoceros viper or river jack Bitis nasicornis Description: Brightly colored with purplish to reddish-brown markings...
Puff adder Bitis arietans Description: Yellowish, light brown, or orange with chevron-shaped dark brown or...
The threat from animals is less than from other parts of the environment. However, common sense tells you to avoid…
Palestinian viper Vipera palaestinae Description: Olive to rusty brown with a dark V-shaped mark on...
Mole viper or burrowing viper Atracaspis microlepidota Description: Uniformly black or dark brown with a...
McMahon’s viper Eristicophis macmahonii Description: Sandy buff color dominates the body, with darker brown spots...
Malayan pit viper Callaselasma rhodostoma Description: Reddish running into pink tinge toward the belly with...
Levant viper Vipera lebetina Description: Gray to pale brown with large dark brown spots on...
Krait Bungarus caeruleus Description: Black or bluish-black with white narrow crossbands and a narrow head....
King cobra Ophiophagus hannah Description: Uniformly olive, brown, or green with ring-like cross-bands of black....
Horned desert viper Cerastes cerastes Description: Pale buff color with obscure markings and a sharp...
Habu pit viper Trimeresurus flavoviridis Description: Light brown or olive-yellow with black markings and a...
Green tree pit viper Trimeresurus gramineus Description: Uniform bright or dull green with light yellow...
Green mamba Dendraspis angusticeps Description: Most mambas are uniformly bright green over their entire body....
Gaboon viper Bitis gabonica Description: Pink to brown with a vertebral series of elongated yellowish...
Habu Pit Viper Naja haje Description: Yellowish, dark brown, or black uniform top with brown...