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Terrestrial Snakes
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Scorpions
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Spiders
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Hymenopterans
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Other Terrestrial Animals
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Poisonous Animals
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Cnidarians
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Venomous Fish
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Sea Snakes
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Other Aquatic Animals

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Terrestrial Snakes in North Africa, Near and Middle East
- Elapids
- Vipers
- Pit Vipers
- Colubrids
Bungarus spp., Kraits

Dendroaspis spp., Mambas

Naja sp., African cobras

Naja sp., Asian cobras

Various African and Arabian Elapids of minor medical importance
Atractaspis spp., Mole vipers

Bitis spp., Puff adder, Gaboon viper and others

Causus spp., Night adders

Cerastes spp., African desert horned vipers

Daboia spp., Oriental vipers, Orientalische Vipern

Echis spp., Saw scaled vipers and Carpet vipers

Eristicophis macmahoni, McMahon's viper

Macrovipera spp., Large palearctic vipers

Montivipera spp., Asian vipers, Mountain vipers

Pseudocerastes spp., Persian horned vipers

Vipera spp., European vipers
Gloydius spp., Asian pitvipers
Various Colubridae, Colubrids
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Elapids
Vipers
Pit Vipers
Colubrids

Gloydius spp., Asian pitvipers

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- Crotalinae

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Terrestrial Snakes

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Crotalinae

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