which is the most posinous snake?

Answer 1

1st
Cobra (heard this in National Geographic)

2nd
Black Mamba (heard this in the fim "KILL THE BILL")

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but the most posinous snake are the sea snakes
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According to many people they think
Black Mamba 34%
Land Taipan 25%
King Cobra 16%
Sea Taipan 12%
Viper 5%
Death adder 4%
Diamond Back 1%
Pygmee 0%

Many people think that blackmamba is the most poisonous snake because as little as two drops of venom can kill a person and a mamba can have up to 20 drops of venom in its fangs.

The Black Mambas are found in pairs or small groups. They are very nervous, and head away fast when a human approaches. When the mamba feels threatened it will raise its front and head about 3-4 feet off the ground, open its mouth, spread a flat hood, and shake its head. When they attack they will make several quick strikes, and escape as fast as they can. They can strike from 4-6 feet away. Before antivenoms were developed, a black mamba bite was 100% fatal. They are invulnerable, because no animal can actually kill them.( mostly). Their venom can kill just about anything, so they don't have much to worry about. The mamba is mainly threatened by habitat destruction.

Answer 2

sea snakes are one of the most poisonous variety. Their bite can kill an enormous shark or a whale immediately.
After a snake strikes its venom goes to work very quickly and effects the heart, the lungs, the muscles or the red blood cells. Venoms are divided into three categories: 1) hemotoxic - damages blood vessels and promotes haemorrhage 2) neurotoxic - paralyses the heart and respiration 3) myotoxic - causes severe muscular pain. In some cases a combination of effects occurs. Cobras and Coral snakes are said to have the most potent neurotoxic venom, the latter literally liquefying tissue, especially the flesh closest to the snakebite. Cottonmouth venom causes fatal haemorrhaging in all organs of the body if an antidote isn’t administered on time.
The Gaboon viper is considered the most dangerous of African snakes. Its bite is rarely felt or is confused with an insect sting and victims often die before antivenin can be administered.
The Inland Taipan is a very rare species and believed to be the most toxic of all snakes, it makes the Cobra look like a garter snake. One bite delivers enough venom to kill around 100 people. A close cousin, the Taipan, reaches a length of over 10 feet and is very aggressive. It strikes without warning, not once, but several times, injecting a venom that clots blood and can kill in minutes

Answer 3

On the Brasilian Island of Fernando de Noronha some snake is found and supposed to be the most poisonous in the world.
Mamba's,Gabon Viper,Sea Snakes,Carpet Vipers,and a certain type of snake found in swamps in Congo.

Answer 4

I was also going to say that the King Cobra is probably the most poisonous, but I imagine that it's probably a tropical snake that's actually the most. I know there is a water snake that will kill a person in seconds if it bites them.

Answer 5

The Black Mamba and Taipan have very powerful venom with a mortality rate of almost 100% without antivenin. The Krait has a mortality rate of 50% with antivenin.

Answer 6

The inland taipan is deadly and, drop-for-drop, produces the most lethal poison of any snake in the world

Answer 7

I found this list:

World’s Most Venomous Snakes
In order of lethal potency

* Not Australian snakes

1. Small-scaled snake
2. Brown snake
3. Taipan
4. Tiger snake
5. Reevesby Island tiger snake
6. Beaked sea snake
7. Western Australian tiger snake
8. Chappell Island tiger snake
9. Death adder
10. Gwardar
11. Australian copperhead
12. Indian Cobra*
13. Dugite
14. Papuan blacksnake
15. Yellow-banded snake
16. Rough-scaled snake
17. King Cobra*
18. Blue-bellied black snake
19. Collet’s snake
20. King brown snake
21. Red-bellied black snake
22. Small-eyed snake
23. Eastern diamond-back rattlesnake*

From: http://www.deadlyaustralians.com.au/da_venomous_snakes.htm

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Here is another list and clearly there is great debate about what is meant by "most venemous"

Most venomous snakes in the world

The most comprehensive work is considered to be that by A.J. Broad, S.K. Sutherland, and A. R. Couleter (Toxicon, 1979). However, this work is far from complete. Crotalus adamenteus is the only viper included and Naja naja the only non-Australian elapids. This is ignoring the various species of cobra besidse N. naja nor does it include any of the various coral snake species or Bungarus (Kraits), Daboia (Russels vipers), Dendroaspis (Mamba), Echis (carpet and saw-scaled vipers) or any of the sea snakes besides E. shistosa in addition to two extremely toxic species of Crotalus: durrissus (Neotropical rattlesnake) and scutulatus (Mojave green rattlesnake). Many species of Australian elapids are also not in the list

There are two ways to look at the situation. One, to consider LD50 as well as venom yeild or, to look at just murine LD50s (these are usually what people are asking about regarding most venomous... drop for drop



LD50s of 25 venomous snake species
(if you are a mouse)

Scientific name | Common name | Murine LD50 mg/kg | Murine LD50 mg/kg

Oxyuranus microlepidotus | Inland taipan | 0.010 | 0.025

Pseudonaja textilis | Eastern brown snake | 0.041 | 0.053

Oxyuranus scutellatus scutellatus | Coastal taipan | 0.064 | 0.099

Notechis scutatus scutatus | Mainland tiger snake | 0.118 | 0.118

Notechis ater niger | Peninsula tiger snake | 0.099 | 0.131

Notechis ater occidentalis | Western tiger snake | 0.124 | 0.194

Enhydrina schistosa | Beaked sea snake | 0.173 | 0.164

Notechis ater serventyi | Chappell Island tiger snake | 0.271 | 0.338

Acanthophis antarticus | Common death adder | 0.338 | 0.400

Pseudonaja nuchalis | Gwardar | 0.338 | 0.473

Austrelaps superbus | Lowland copperhead | 0.500 | 0.560

Naja naja | Indian cobra | 0.500 | 0.565

Tropidechis carinatus | Rough-scaled snake | 1.09 | 1.36

Pseudechis papuanus | Papuan black snake | 1.36 | 1.09

Hoplocephalus stephensi | Stephen's banded snake | 1.44 | 1.36

Ophiophagus hannah | King cobra | 1.91 | 1.80

Pseudechis guttatus | Spotted black snake | 1.53 | 2.13

Pseudechis colletti | Collett's snake | - | 2.38

Pseudechis australis | Mulga snake | 1.91 | 2.38

Pseudechis porphyriacus | Red-bellied black snake | 2.53 | 2.52

Cryptophis nigrescens | Small-eyed snake | - | 2.67

Crotalus adamentus | Eastern diamondback rattlesnake | 7.70 | 11.4

Demansi olivacea | Marbled headed whip snake | - | >14.2

Bothrops atrox | Barba amarilla | - | >27.8


Suspected highly toxic Australian species not included on the list

Acanthophis amstrongi Black headed death adder

Acanthophis hawkei Barkly tableland death adder

Acanthophis praelongus Northern death adder

Acanthophis pyrrhus Desert death adder

Austrelaps labialis Highland copperhead

Austrelaps ramsayi Pygmy copperhead

Echiopsis atriceps Lake Cronin snake

Echiopsis curta Bardick snake

Hoplocephalus bitorquatus Pale-headed snake

Hoplocephalus bungaroides Broad-headed snake

Notechis ater ater Krefft's tiger snake

Notechis ater humphreysi King Island/Tasmanian Tiger snake

Oxyuranus scutellatus canni Papuan taipan

Pseudechis butleri Butler's snake/spotted mulga

Pseudonaja guttata Speckled brown snake

Pseudonaja inframacula Peninsula brown snake

Pseudonaja ingrami Ingram's brown snake

Pseudonaja modesta Ringed brown snake

There is no evidence to suggest that any of these snakes (with the possible exceptions of Hoplocephalus bitorquartus and Pseudonaja modesta) are dramatically less toxic than closely related (and already measured in the top 25) species.

As is faily evident, the list of the most toxic snakes is long overdue for an update.

Much of this is of course simply academic.... dead is dead!!

From: http://www.kingsnake.com/toxinology/old/snakes/venomlist.html

Answer 8

Black Mamba.


Two thumbs down WHAT!?
Theis is the deadliest snake in the world. Look it up people GEES!

Answer 9

The black mamba- I have heard Steve Irwin say that!! D

Answer 10

KING COBRA