Tiny Carpet Viper

From wikipedia the free encyclopedia echis common names.

Tiny carpet viper.

Its bite causes more than 20 000 deaths of agricultural workers per year. Actually its venom reacts slowly but it causes big damages. On the arabian peninsula it has been recorded from saudi arabia yemen and oman. This is typically a desert species.

During the day they prefer hiding under a rock a shrub in a hollow on a tree or in a wide enough crack. Burton s carpet viper is the name given to echis coloratus or painted saw scaled viper of eastern egypt palestine syria and israel. We can find this 2 feet snake in western africa. Painted saw scaled viper painted carpet viper burton s carpet viper palestine saw scaled viper arabian saw scaled viper mid east saw scaled viper.

Ocellated carpet viper echis ocellatus is the deadliest snake in the savannah. One hundred and fifteen patients with poisoning caused by its bite were studied in the savanna region of nigeria where victims of this snake may occupy 10 per cent of hospital beds. It is found in the middle east in sinai israel and jordan. They have a characteristic threat display rubbing sections of their body together to produce a sizzling warning sound.

The saw scaled or carpet viper echis carinatus whose range extends from senegal to bengal probably bites and kills more people than any other species of snake.