Poisonous Snake
The fangs of pit vipers are long, movable and very prominent.
The legendary king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah), reputedly the world’s largest venomous snake, is one of only 17 poisonous land snake species in Malaysia. These snakes belong to two families, the Viperidae containing eight pit vipers, the only family of snakes in the world with heat-sensing pits for detecting prey in the dark, and the Elapidae, with two cobras, three kraits and four coral snakes.
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- Pit vipers
- Cobras, kraits and coral snakes