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#1651361

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Poisonous keelback

Did you all know Rhabdophis subminiatus is a poisonous snake? For those of you who are not familiar, it is a keelback snake that is a colubrid native to southeast asia.

picture can be found here:

http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Rhabdophis_subminiatus.jpg

And before I say too much, I want to know if anyone else has heard this.

03/07/08 09:17am

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Sully
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Message To: SoLA In reference to Message Id: 1651361

Poisonous keelback

Yep, I heard that a long time ago.

03/07/08 10:12am

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Message To: Sully In reference to Message Id: 1651405

Poisonous keelback

Yep, poisonous and venomous. Some keelback’s have a very potent venom as well.

03/07/08 10:58am

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SoLA
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Message To: TJP In reference to Message Id: 1651447

Poisonous keelback

Rhabdophis is significatly strong venom, as in...it has caused human fatalities. (according to Fry anyway).

I just wanted to see what people had to say about it being poisonous. I just listened to a talk by Dr. John Murphy discussing the paper published on where they draw their toxins. Very cool.

03/07/08 04:08pm

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JEFF QUARLES
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Message To: SoLA In reference to Message Id: 1651727

Poisonous keelback

I had read that it was mildly toxic but I guess data has changed..

03/07/08 06:32pm

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Message To: JEFF QUARLES In reference to Message Id: 1651910

Poisonous keelback

ooops, looks like it is Rhabdophis tigrinis thats poison was studied. Not R. subminiatus. I would not be surprised if other populations of Rhabdophis were poisonous though.

03/07/08 08:03pm