Fer-de-lance

Fer-de-lance Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology (fr´´-d-lns´), highly poisonous snake, Bothrops atrox, found in tropical South America and the West Indies.

About Fer-de-Lance This very dangerous snake belongs to a family called the pit vipers. To find their prey they use heat sensitive pits between their eyes and nostrils.

The fer-de-lance is the most dangerous snake of Central and South America, and causes more human deaths than any other American reptile.

False Fer-de-lance Xenodon rabdocephalus Coral Snakes Family Elapidae Many-ringed coral snake Micrurus diastema ...

Common lancehead, fer-de-lance, barba amarilla.[2] The Spanish common name barba amarilla (yellow beard), an allusion to the pale yellow chin color, is also used in English. In Guyana it is called labaria[4] or labarria.

The Bushmaster , and the Fer-de-lance are other deadly pit vipers. From the old world vipers, the African mamba, the Cobra, sea snakes of tropical oceans.

Common Lancehead (Bothrops atrox) (aka Fer-de-lance) The Common Lancehead is probably the most feared poisonous snake in tropical South America.

See also: Snake, Pit Viper, Viper, Bushmaster, Rattlesnake