#night adder

[herpsandbirds]

Velvety-green Night Adder (Causus resimus), family Viperidae, Ethiopia

Venomous.

photograph by Stephen Spawls

[gijoe-forever]

[exotic-venom]

snouted night adder

[maddaddy316]

Green Night Adder. Africa.Venomous.

[herpsandbirds]

Snouted Night Adder (Causus defilippii), family Viperidae, found in eastern and southern Africa

Venomous.

photograph by Dick Bartlett

[herpsandbirds]

Velvety-green Night Adder (Causus resimus), family Viperidae, Masai Mara, Kenya

Venomous.

photograph by Michel Kuijpers

[gijoe-forever]

[exotic-venom]

(Causus maculatus) Spotted night adder, West African night adder Not well known. Mainly hemotoxic, w/ possible cytotoxic factors. Bites generally cause immediate local pain, at least limited local swelling, sometimes fever, & painful regional lymphadenopathy. Second most common cause of snake-bite mortality in Senegal. No known antivenom currently produced.