African snakes
Common Names | Species Name | Coverage by EchiTAb-Plus-ICP | Snake Photos | Distribution Map (WHO Venomous Snakes Distribution DB) |
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West African Carpet Viper | Echis ocellatus | YES | ![]() |
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Puff Adder | Bitis arietans | YES | ![]() |
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Black-Necked Spitting Cobra | Naja nigricollis | YES | ![]() Courtesy of Gerhardt Nieuwoudt, South Africa |
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East African Carpet Viper | Echis pyramidum | YES | ![]() |
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White-Bellied Carpet Viper | Echis leucogaster | YES | ![]() |
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West African Gaboon Viper | Bitis rhinoceros | YES | ![]() |
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Rhinoceros Viper | Bitis nasicornis | YES | ![]() |
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East African Gaboon Viper | Bitis gabonica | YES | ![]() |
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Mozambique Spitting Cobra | Naja mossambica | YES | ![]() |
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Red Spitting Cobra | Naja pallida | YES | ![]() |
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West African bush viper | Atheris chlorechis | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Jameson’s mamba | Dendroaspis jamesoni | 0 | 1 | |
Eastern green mamba | Dendroaspis angusticeps | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Moorish viper | Daboia mauritanica | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Desert viper | Daboia deserti | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Horned viper | Cerastes cerastes | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Variable burrowing asp | Atractaspis irregularis | 0 | 1 | 1 |
False burrowing asp | Atractaspis fallax | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Israeli mole viper | Atractaspis engaddensis | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Broadley’s bush viper | Atheris broadleyi | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Variable bush viper | Theris squamigera | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Joger’s carpet viper | Echis jogeri | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Boomslang | Dispholidus typus | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Ethiopian mountain adder | Bitis parviocula | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Burton’s carpet viper | Echis coloratus | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Big-headed carpet viper | Echis megalocephalus | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Hughes’ carpet viper | Echis hughesi | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Bibron’s burrowing asp | Atractaspis bibronii | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Zebra cobra | Naja nigricincta | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Lataste’s viper | Vipera latastei | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Usambara vine snake | Thelotornis usambaricus | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Mozambique vine snake | Thelotornis mossambicanus | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Forest vine or twig snake | Thelotornis kirtlandii | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Savanna vine or twig snake | Thelotornis capensis | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Black tree cobra | Pseudohaje nigra | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Gold’s tree cobra | Pseudohaje goldii | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Field’s horned viper | Pseudocerastes fieldi | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Lowland swamp viper | Proatheris superciliaris | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Senegalese cobra | Naja senegalensis | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Black mamba | Dendroaspis polylepis | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cape cobra | Naja nivea | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Western green mamba | Dendroaspis viridis | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Forest cobra | Naja melanoleuca | 0 | 1 | 1 |
West African brown spitting cobra | Naja katiensis | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Egyptian cobra | Naja haje | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Christy’s water cobra | Naja christyi | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Ashe’s spitting cobra | Naja ashei | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Snouted cobra | Naja annulifera | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Banded water cobra | Naja annulata | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Anchieta’s cobra | Naja anchietae | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Levant viper | Macrovipera lebetina | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Rinkhals spitting cobra | Hemachatus haemachatus | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Desert cobra | Walterinnesia aegyptia | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Nubian spitting cobra | Naja nubiae | 0 | 1 | 1 |