Death supervenes in a few minutes, from respiratory asphyxia, as in the case of intoxication by the venom of Colubrine snakes (Cobra).
A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.
East Indian colubrine snakes of the genus Acrochordus, having the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes.
Viperidae known to inhabit Australia, where the Poisonous Colubrine Snakes are so numerous.
The poisonous Snakes with such a dentition have externally a more or less striking resemblance to the non-Venemous Serpents, and on this account they are designated as Venemous Colubrine Snakes, forming our second sub-order.
I therefore, with some trouble, overturned the plant-case, and then saw that the unlucky Colubrine Snake was firmly pinned by a large Xenopeltis, into whose hole it had unwittingly entered.
The two species of poisonous colubrine serpents already referred to are known respectively as the Elaps fulvius, and the Elaps euryxanthus, both of which occur in the southern portions of the United States.
Conophis lineatus dunni= Smith Psammophis lineatus, Guenther, Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum, p.
Catalogue of colubrine snakes in the collection of the British Museum.
Unlike the vipers, the colubrine poisonous snakes have small fangs, and their poison, though on the whole even more deadly, has entirely different effects, and owes its deadliness to entirely different qualities.
Poisonous snakes are of several different families, but the most poisonous ones, those which are dangerous to man, belong to the two great families of the colubrine snakes and the vipers.
The only poisonous colubrinesnakes in the New World are the ring- snakes, the coral-snakes of the genus elaps, which are found from the extreme southern United States southward to the Argentine.
Doctor Brazil informed me that the mussurama, like the king-snake, was not immune to the colubrine poison.
Most of thecolubrine snakes are entirely harmless, and are the common snakes that we meet everywhere.
As yet the doctor has not been able to develop an anti-venom serum which will neutralize the poison of these colubrine snakes.
But the effect of the venom of the poisonous colubrine snakes is totally different from, although to the full as deadly as, the effect of the poison of the rattlesnake or jararaca.
But the vital difference is that between all these poisons of the pit- vipers and the poisons of the colubrine snakes, such as the cobra and the coral-snake.
The doctor first put on the table a non-poisonous but very vicious and truculent colubrine snake.
The bite of a cobra or other colubrinepoisonous snake is more painful in its immediate effects than is the bite of one of the big vipers.
It is immune to viper poison but it is not immune to colubrine poison.
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