What kind of snake is this?

This is a kind of viper, which was first discovered in Mangshan area of Chenzhou, Hunan Province, so it is called "Mangshan welding head". It belongs to reptiles, scales, viperidae.

The head snake is about 1 m long. The head is in the shape of the Yangtze River Delta, with a thin neck, a thin body and a slender tail. The kiss is very narrow. Buccal fossa The back of the head is covered with fine scales, and the scales on the orbit are larger. There are 1 1 ~ 18 scales between the left and right supraorbital scales. The scales on the back are ridged. The back of the body is grayish brown, and there are irregular dark brown patches on the back and its sides. Some of these patches are continuous from front to back, forming wavy longitudinal stripes; The ventral surface is light brown.

Mangshan welding head is a poisonous snake, which is even more toxic than Agkistrodon acutus.

This snake is very lazy. Most of the time, they will lie motionless on the ground. Even if someone comes, they just crawl slowly, slower than walking. Only when they are greatly frightened will they run away quickly.