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Dangerous snakes, deadly snakes and medically important snakes [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2013 This correspondence argues that the dangerousness of a venomous snake species is not solely determined by the venom characteristics or the lethality of the snake, and recognizes that medical importance comprises a key variable as well.
Anjana Silva
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Are Diet Preferences Associated to Skulls Shape Diversification in Xenodontine Snakes? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Snakes are a highly successful group of vertebrates, within great diversity in habitat, diet, and morphology. The unique adaptations for the snake skull for ingesting large prey in more primitive macrostomatan snakes have been well documented.
Julia Klaczko +2 more
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Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Parasitic Infections in Captive Snakes, Bangladesh [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and ScienceBackground Gastrointestinal (GI) parasitic infections are a common health concern in captive snakes, potentially affecting their well‐being. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of helminth and protozoan infections in ...
Nazmul Hasan +7 more
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A double narrative: stories underpin fearful community attitudes toward snakes but offer a mechanism to reduce human-to-snake conflict [PDF]
Global Health ActionBackground Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease with significant mortality and morbidity. Fear of snakes often results in human-to-snake violence which not only harms snakes but increases bite risks to humans.
Diana Meirinho Domingues +4 more
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Book Review: The Snakes of Honduras
Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 2011 Book review: McCranie, J. R. 2011. The Snakes of Honduras – Systematics, Distribution, and Conservation. Contributions to Herpetology, Volume 26. Society for the Study of Amphibians andReptiles, Thomson-Shore, Inc., Michigan.
Hussam Zaher
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Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2021 Delineating species distribution comprising information on habitat suitability is vital for developing conservation strategies. Like many other snake species, Lycodon flavicollis is a poorly studied peninsular Indian endemic species known only from few ...
Sanath Krishna Muliya +7 more
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A century of waiting: description of a new Epictia Gray, 1845 (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) based on specimens housed for more than 100 years in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NMW) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 We describe a new species of Epictia based on eight specimens from Nicaragua collected and housed in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna for more than a century.
Claudia Koch +2 more
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Snakes and Snake Bite in Nepal [PDF]
Tropical Doctor, 1998 At Nepal's northern border with Tibet is the great Himalaya Range. capped by Mount Everest itself (8848 ni) and including four of the other eight highest mountains in the world. South of the Kathmandu Valley at the centre of the country are the lesser mountains of the Mahabharat Range and Churia Ghati Hills.
Bhetwal, BB, O'Shea, Mark, Warrell, D.A.
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People and Nature, 2021 Research on interactions between humans and deadly snakes has focused on situations that result in high rates of snakebite; but we can also learn from cases where snakes and people coexist peacefully. For example, coastal bays near Noumea, in the Pacific
Vinay Udyawer +2 more
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Parasitic helminths in snakes from the global legal trade
Helminthologia, 2021 In recent years, the demand for snakes imported from different countries around the world has increased in Slovakia. However, such snakes can be infected with a wide variety of parasites.
Halán M., Kottferová L.
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