Details of the Indian giant viper

India is mountainous, and there are more than 250 kinds of snakes, including more than 50 kinds of poisonous snakes.

The more common ones are Indian cobra, golden ring snake, umbrella node, Lushi Agkistrodon (alias chain snake), saw-scale Agkistrodon, and tortoise shell flower.

Family name: bat snake family

Chinese name: Indian cobra

Scientific name: Najia Najia

Name: Najia

Edibility: feed on small mammals, frogs or snakes.

Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan.

Morphological characteristics: full length 135- 150 cm. There are two eye-like stripes on the back of the unfolded scarf.

Living habits: Habitat in most natural environments. Oviposition is highly toxic.

Chinese name: Golden Ring Snake

China order name: Serpenthes

Chinese name: cobra.

Chinese scientific name: Ampelopsis.

Chinese common names: yellow snake, golden belt, Buddha snake, golden armor, golden retribution, gold-coated iron, Xuannan whip, golden snake, etc.

Latin name: golden ring snake

English name: Banded krait

Name and year of species: Schneider, 180 1.

Morphological characteristics: the head is oval, the tail is extremely short, slightly triangular, the tail is blunt and slightly flat, and there are several obvious black and yellow ribs all over the body. The black ring pattern is almost as wide as the yellow ring pattern, the yellow ring pattern has 23-28 rings, the tail has 3-5 rings, the back scale is smooth *** 15 rows, and the back center has 65438+.

Ecological habits inhabit hilly and mountainous areas, often in wet areas or near the water. They are afraid of light. During the day, they often bury their heads under their stomachs, but they are very active at night, preying on lizards, fish, frogs, mice and so on. , and can swallow other snakes and snake eggs. They are gentle, slow-moving and very toxic, but they don't take the initiative to bite or lay eggs. They lay eggs at the end of May, and the output of each can reach 60.

Distributed in Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian, Jiangxi, Yunnan and other provinces; There are Vietnam, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar and other countries abroad.

Bungarus multicinctus is a kind of poisonous snake with front incisors, with a total length of 1200- 1800 mm, black all over, with a wide gold ring pattern, and a 19-27 ring at the tail, and the width of black and yellow is similar. The back of the head is dark brown, and there are light inverted "V" spots on the pillow. The back is ridged, so the cross section of the trunk is slightly triangular and the tail end is blunt. The head is oval, which is not obviously different from the neck. There are 9 large scales on the head and back, the back scales are smooth, the whole body 15 line, and the ridge scales in the middle of the back are enlarged into hexagons.

Bungarus multicinctus is a poisonous snake with sharp teeth. Known as the "three snakes" together with cobra and squirrel, it is a famous edible snake species. Golden ring snakes are distributed around 25 degrees north latitude and its south, including Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi and southern Yunnan, and can reach Nanchang, Jiangxi in the east and north. Foreign countries are distributed in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Habitat in the plain or low mountain with good vegetation coverage at an altitude of180-10/4 m. The golden ring snake is very active at night. Bungars eat snakes and occasionally lizards or other vertebrates. Oviposition, 6- 14 eggs are laid under rotten leaves or caves in May and June. The number of golden ring snakes is extremely rare in the wild. Bungarus multicinctus is one of the famous edible snakes. Snake body and snake gall soaked in wine are also used as medicine, and a large number of them are sold in China or exported for a long time after being killed. Because the distribution range of this kind of snake is narrower than that of bungarus multicinctus, the number is small.

Family name: bat snake family

Chinese name: Umbrella Festival

Scientific name: silver ring snake

Genus name: Bungarus multicinctus

Edibility: feed on mice, lizards, frogs, snakes or fish.

Distribution: China, Taiwan Province Province, Myanmar, Viet Nam.

Morphological characteristics: the total length is about 140 cm. The head and neck are easy to distinguish, and the scales in the center of the back are larger. The body color is mainly black with 27-67 white stripes. The abdomen is white.

Living habits: living in hilly areas or near farming villages and other watery areas. Night activities are the main activities. It will sneak into the house and hurt people, which is extremely toxic. Laying eggs, each fetus can lay 3- 12 eggs and hatch after 50 days.

Sparus spinosus

There is one of the most poisonous and deadly reptiles in the Indian hot thar desert region: the saw snake. This notorious viper is only 30 inches long. It is hard to believe that it is the snake that kills the most people: once people are poisoned by its super poisonous venom, they rarely survive, especially in remote and uninhabited desert areas, and it is likely to die from its poisonous kiss.

This kind of snake is easy to recognize, with monotonous skin color, vertical and flat body and a triangular cone or arrow mark on its short head. This unsociable creature spends most of its time burying itself under the desert, only showing its eyes and waiting for its prey to approach. Their prey mainly includes birds, lizards and geckos in desert areas. In the dry season, they hunt almost only at night. Once stimulated or frightened, snakes can become very aggressive. They like to rub the scaly side of their bodies and make a loud and harsh sound. Curious bystanders should be careful not to go near them: saw scales snakes can attack from two feet away.

shell flower

Scientific name: Macropisthodon rudis

English name: False Viper, Keelbacks

Nicknames: Pseudo-Agkistrodon, Pseudo-centipede, Prism-Scale Snake, Neck-Prism Snake.

Family name: Eupatoridae

Distribution: The whole island of Taiwan Province Province is in the middle and low altitude area, and there are branches in the southwest and south-central areas of China. Living at the bottom of the mountain forest, near the grass or streams, it was originally one of the common snakes, but in recent years, its number is scarce.

Ecological habits: Nocturnal non-toxic snakes feed on toads and frogs, and there are also records of predation on Taiwan blunt snakes, lizards, insects and earthworms. Viviparous reproduction, late summer and early autumn, each nest can produce young snakes 12 ~ 27. The newly hatched snake is 13 ~ 20cm long and weighs 2 ~ 5g. Gentle and almost non-aggressive. However, when it meets the enemy, it is easy to make defensive actions. The original slightly triangular head became a standard triangle, and the body was flat up and down, which made the enemy think it was a vicious poisonous snake, but all this was just a pose. It is not aggressive and has no venom.

Morphological characteristics: small and medium-sized snake, short and thick, with a total length of 90 ~ 120 cm. There are large black spots on both sides of the body, and the black spots in the front section are often connected into a large block. The top of the head is uniform brown with large scales. There is a dark brown longitudinal belt from the kissing end through the eyes to the back of the head, that is, the junction of the light yellow on the side of the head and the top of the head. The head is slightly triangular. There are 23 rows of body scales in the front and middle sections. The ridge of each scale is obvious, rough and not smooth. Pupils are round. There is obvious backlash behind the maxillary teeth 12, and then there are two big teeth. It is named because it looks like a tortoise shell flower, but its pupil is vertical, which can be used as a basis to distinguish the two. The tail is short and suddenly shrinks into a thin tail.