Hi There, Can U post full snap of this snake...??
Regards. Abhay On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:06 PM, shayantan bhattacharya <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi friends, > this is a brightly coloured venomous snake from the hills and > forests of Sikkim, Darjeeling, Assam, Arunachal. > The colour is pinkish-brown with thin black stripes that advertises > its deadly bite. > It is found on the forest floor in lowland forests and upto a > height of 1800 metres in the hills. > It is mainly nocturnal and terrestrial. It occurs in forest litter, > hillside, and lowland. It is often found hiding under leaves. Although this > is a venomous species, it is quite docile and not likely to strike actively. > It preys on small reptiles, such as lizards and snakes. > > Subspecies *iwasakii* is found in Ishigaki > Island<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishigaki>and other Ryukyu > Islands <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyu_Islands> in Japan. Subspecies > *swinhoei* is found in Taiwan. Subspecies *univirgatus* is found in Nepal, > and Sikkim <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikkim>. > Like other elapidae <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elapidae>, it possesses > a potent neurotoxic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotoxicity> venom, > which is capable of killing a person. Bite symptoms include numbness of lips > and difficulty of speech and breathing, followed by blurred vision. Severe > bite victims may die of respiratory failure, although there have been only a > few human deaths recorded in Thailand. > > > PIC by Robferblue > > regards > Shantanu. > > > ------------------------------ > The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! > Homepage<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_yyi_1/*http://in.yahoo.com/>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Indian Herps and Insects" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<indian-herps%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indian-herps?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Indian Herps and Insects" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indian-herps?hl=en-GB.
