Venomous Snakes
Venomous Thailand snakes — front-fanged elapids, vipers and rear-fanged colubrids capable of harm. Photos, species notes and bite information.
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Pope’s Pit Viper (Trimeresurus popeiorum) — Northern Thailand’s Highland Green Viper
Pope’s Pit Viper is the green pit viper most people meet on a hike through the cool, misty hill forests…
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White-Lipped Pit Viper (Trimeresurus albolabris) — Common, Venomous, Hospital-Worthy
The White-Lipped Pit Viper is the green-snake-on-a-branch that most people in Thailand have at some point either seen, photographed or…
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Kanburi Pit Viper (Trimeresurus kanburiensis) — Kanchanaburi Endemic
The Kanburi Pit Viper is one of those species that exists almost entirely on a single limestone hill range in…
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Indochinese Spitting Cobra (Naja siamensis) — Black-and-White, Common, Dangerous
If we had to pick one Thai snake that everyone working in agriculture or living in a rural village should…
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Checkered Keelback (Fowlea piscator) — Mildly Venomous, Rarely Dangerous
If we had to pick the snake we run into most often around Thai rice paddies, drainage canals and slow-moving…
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