Tiny Carpet Viper

From wikipedia the free encyclopedia echis common names.

Tiny carpet viper.

This is typically a desert species. Download premium images you can t get anywhere else. We can find this 2 feet snake in western africa. It is found in the middle east in sinai israel and jordan.

Its bite causes more than 20 000 deaths of agricultural workers per year. During the day they prefer hiding under a rock a shrub in a hollow on a tree or in a wide enough crack. The saw scaled or carpet viper echis carinatus whose range extends from senegal to bengal probably bites and kills more people than any other species of snake. Saw scaled vipers carpet vipers is a genus of venomous vipers found in the dry regions of africa the middle east india sri lanka and pakistan.

One hundred and fifteen patients with poisoning caused by its bite were studied in the savanna region of nigeria where victims of this snake may occupy 10 per cent of hospital beds. On the arabian peninsula it has been recorded from saudi arabia yemen and oman. Ocellated carpet viper echis ocellatus is the deadliest snake in the savannah. Painted saw scaled viper painted carpet viper burton s carpet viper palestine saw scaled viper arabian saw scaled viper mid east saw scaled viper.

Actually its venom reacts slowly but it causes big damages.