Baby Carpet Viper

The name echis is the latin transliteration of the greek word for viper ἔχις.

Baby carpet viper.

The west african carpet viper has a distinctive threat display which involves rubbing its coils together to create a loud sizzling sound. Scales cover the head and belly of the animal. This snake is usually anywhere from 14 96 to 23 62 inches 38 to 60 cm in length but can occasionally be as long as 31 5 inches 80 cm long. The venom of the carpet viper or echis is extremely poisonous.

The ocellated carpet viper or echis ocellatus inhabits the countries of senegal gambia and gulf of guinea in the african continent. The cape cobra naja nivea is found across southern africa favoring dry areas including desert and arid savannah regions. The head of a carpet viper is somewhat wider than the rest of its body. They have a characteristic threat display rubbing sections of their body together to produce a sizzling warning sound.

10 kilograms according to the adw. Another short tempered extremely temperamental and aggressive snake is the small sized carpet viper. The viper commonly inhabits the rocky areas and regions with sparse vegetation. It is also flat on top with a slightly rounded snout.

Most aggressive water sea snakes sea snakes are those which spend. Burton s carpet viper is the name given to echis coloratus or painted saw scaled viper of eastern egypt palestine syria and israel. Special price 195 00. Ariadne van zandbergen getty images.

According to data on fatalities due to snakebites this snake has killed more people than any other snake. A carpet viper may eat frogs. Snake catcher snake removal melbourne. Saw scaled vipers carpet vipers is a genus of venomous vipers found in the dry regions of africa the middle east india sri lanka and pakistan.

Call for price. It was described in 1797 by george shaw and frederick polydore nodder and named in honour of patrick russell who wrote of it in his 1796 work an account of indian serpents collected on the coast of coromandel. Although the area is notorious for harbouring three species of poisonous snakes namely carpet viper cobra and pofadder the carpet viper is regarded as the one with the deadliest bite. Gaboon viper bitis gabonica gaboon vipers are the largest vipers in the world reaching lengths of up to 7 feet 213 cm and more than 22 lbs.

Murray darling vic carpet python. Russell s viper daboia russelii is a species of venomous snake in the family viperidae native to the indian subcontinent.