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Elapids Pit Vipers True Vipers Click the links above to go to that section, or just scroll down the page. Click any photo to see a larger version. Please do not steal my photos for the purpose of advertising your own animals. We only keep a few other Elapids, Vipers, and Pit Vipers. All animals pictured on this page are in my collection, and owned by me. The photos were taken by me, unless otherwise labeled.
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1 . 2 Naja haje - Egyptian Cobra |
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JV Female Haj-002-F |
Adult Female Haj-003-F |
JV Male Haj-004-M |
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I acquired
Female #1 on 11/12/08. She was only about 3' long and
quite thin. She is eating frozen thawed and growing fast.
She has some light colored banding on the tail end. This photo
was taken shortly after I got her. She looks better now.
The 2nd female was acquired from a friend on 03/06/09. The male 004 was acquired at the Myrtle Beach Show in July 2011. .
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1 . 0 Crotalus atrox / adamanteus (Eastern x Western Diamondback Rattlesnake) |
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AD Male (Very Old) C-EWDB-001-M |
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This male was in a group I purchased from a friend when he was selling his
collection. I'm told, the breeding that produced this male, was an
accidental breeding, that happened sometime around 1990, maybe
earlier. So, he is getting quite old. Supposedly, a
male of one specie, escaped his cage, and got into the cage with a female
of the other specie, and they bred. Anyway, he was over 4' long
when I got him on 01/18/99. He is now over 5' long and 4.5"-
5" in diameter. He eats F/T.
Scale Counts - Ventrals - 176, Sub-caudals - 27, Mid-body - 27, Before Vent - 23
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0 . 1 Bitis gabonica rhinoceros (West African Gaboon Viper) |
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CB'99 Female Rhi-001-F |
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This female was purchased as a baby on 05/17/99. She is 10 years old and only about 2.5' long. I don't know if she is a dwarf, or if I just didn't feed her enough when she was young. I started feeding her larger meals a few years ago and she is still growing, so maybe she will eventually get big. She is one of the prettiest Gaboon's I have seen, showing a lot of pink and light cream markings. She eats F/T. . |
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Some of the information on this page was copied from the publications below. |
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African Journal of Herpetology, 2004 53(2):101-122. Original article A review of the southern African ‘non-spitting’ cobras (Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja) DONALD G. BROADLEY AND WOLFGANG WÜSTER
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Zootaxa
1532: 51–68 (2007) Get
an eyeful of this: a new species of giant spitting cobra from eastern
and WOLFGANG WÜSTER & DONALD G. BROADLEY |
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J. Zool., Lond. (2003) 259, 345–359 C 2003 The Zoological Society of London Printed in the United Kingdom DOI:10.1017/S0952836902003333 A new species of spitting cobra (Naja) from north-eastern Africa (Serpentes: Elapidae) Wolfgang Wuster and Donald G. Broadley
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The Dangerous Snakes of Africa Natural History Species Directory Venoms and Snakebite by Stephen Spawles and Bill Branch |
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WCH Clinical Toxinology Resources The University of Adelaide, Australia |
The Snakes of Thailand and Their Husbandry by Merel J. Cox |
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Handbook To The Dangerously Venomous Snakes Of Myanmar by Alan E. Leviton, George R. Zug, Jens V. Vindum, and Guinevere O.U. Wogan |
Venomous Snakes Snakes in the Terrarium by Ludwig Trutnau |
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