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Gabino viper

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(Bitis nasicornis) rhinoceros viper

Venom highly cytotoxic. May cause massive swelling & tissue necrosis. Tissue necrosis resulting in amputation has been reported. Few bites of humans recorded.

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(Bitis nasicornis) Rhinoceros viper

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(Tropidolaemus wagleri) Wagler’s pit viper / Temple pit viper

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[eliminated]

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La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies

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[exotic-venom]

(Trimeresurus trigonocephalus) Sri Lankan green pitviper Mainly hemotoxic. Reported human envenomation symptoms of local pain & swelling generally subside within a few days. Bites & envenomations of plantation workers are relatively common, but only a few human fatalities from bites by this species have been reported.

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Atheris squamigera, common names:  green bush viper, variable bush viper, leaf viper and others, is a venomous viper species that can be found in West and central Africa: Ivory Coast and Ghana, eastward through southern Nigeria to Cameroon, southern Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo, DR Congo, northern Angola, Uganda, Tanzania (Rumanika Game Reserve), western Kenya and Bioko Island. . No subspecies are currently recognized. It’s truly a miraculously beautiful snake. 

Habitat preference: Found mostly in rain forest. Said to prefer relatively low and thick, flowering bushes.

Venom: Bites from this particular species have resulted in at least one report of severe hematological complications as well as two deaths.

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