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.
Fer-de-lance, Common Lancehead, Brazilian Lancehead
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Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, Amazonas, Brazil ...
The fer-de-lance is the most dangerous snake of Central and South America, and causes more human deaths than any other American reptile.
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.
Species Bothrops asper (fer-de-lance)
Species Bothrops atrox (common lancehead)
Species Bothrops barnetti ...
 See also: Snake, Pit Viper, Viper, Bushmaster, Rattlesnake
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