African snakes Common Names Species Name Coverage by EchiTAb-Plus-ICP Snake Photos Distribution Map(WHO Venomous Snakes Distribution DB) West African Carpet Viper Echis ocellatus YES Courtesy of Wolfgang Wuster Puff Adder Bitis arietans YES Courtesy of Thomas Eimermacher Black-Necked Spitting Cobra Naja nigricollis YES Courtesy of Gerhardt Nieuwoudt, South Africa Source: WHO Venomous snakes distribution and species risk categories Database East African Carpet Viper Echis pyramidum YES Courtesy of Wolfgang Wuster White-Bellied Carpet Viper Echis leucogaster YES Source: Tomáš Mazuch http://www.megasphera.cz/africanvenomoussnakes/_private/Monografie_Echis_leucogaster.htm West African Gaboon Viper Bitis rhinoceros YES Courtesy of Thomas Eimermacher Rhinoceros Viper Bitis nasicornis YES Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bitis_nasicornis.jpg East African Gaboon Viper Bitis gabonica YES Courtesy of Thomas Eimermacher Mozambique Spitting Cobra Naja mossambica YES Courtesy of Wolfgang Wuster Red Spitting Cobra Naja pallida YES Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Naja_pallida,_Boston.jpg 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