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Saw - scaled Viper - Echis carinatus 7004
Phansad Reserve Forest - Maharashtra, India
The Saw scaled viper is usually a nocturnal species but can be active at day time also.Found in a variety of habitat like rain forests, dry plains, deserts, rocky hills,sandy soils etc. This beauty lives in scrubs, rocks,dry leaves, brick and rock piles,under rocks etc. Normally extremely agressive and agile, on provocation, the viper will first produce a SAW like fascinating sound by rubbing its side dorsal scales mutually in its coil.
This viper is one from the Indian BIG FOUR family, but also the smallest and one of the venomous of the lot. The venom is Hemotoxic and causes serious tissue loss. - Information : www.indiansnakes.org
Saw - scaled Viper - Echis carinatus 7004
Phansad Reserve Forest - Maharashtra, India
The Saw scaled viper is usually a nocturnal species but can be active at day time also.Found in a variety of habitat like rain forests, dry plains, deserts, rocky hills,sandy soils etc. This beauty lives in scrubs, rocks,dry leaves, brick and rock piles,under rocks etc. Normally extremely agressive and agile, on provocation, the viper will first produce a SAW like fascinating sound by rubbing its side dorsal scales mutually in its coil.
This viper is one from the Indian BIG FOUR family, but also the smallest and one of the venomous of the lot. The venom is Hemotoxic and causes serious tissue loss. - Information : www.indiansnakes.org