Micrurus fulvius 
M. pysches 
Naja melanoleuca 
N. naja 
'Asp' (= Naja haje?) 
N. nigricollis 
Ophiophagus hannah 
*Cockatrice'or 'Basilisk' 
(= Ophiophagus hannah or 
Naja sp.?) 
Pseudechis butleri 
Pseudonaja textilis 
Hydrophiidae 
Pelamis platurus 
Laticaudidae 
Laticauda colubrina 
L. semifasciata 
Leptotyphlopidae 
Leptotyphlops dulcis 
L. humilis 
Typhlopidae 
Ramphotyphlops braminus 
Rhinotyphlops caecus 
Viperidae 
Agkistrodon contortrix 
A. piscivorus 
Calloselasma rhodostoma 
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Campbell, 1973 
Mole, 1924 
Tryon, 1979; Dowling, 1986 
[Appuhamy, 1810] (see Deraniyagala, 1955); 
Fayrer, 1870; Kipling, 1894+; Wall, 1921; 
Mell, 1929; Jennison, 1931; Kopstein, 
1938; Smith, 1943; Simmon, 1944; Tweedie, 
1954; Deraniyagala, 1955; Rao, 1957; 
Ducket, 1964; Deoras, 1965; Petzold, 
1968; Miller, 1970; Campbell and Quinn, 
1975, Daniel, 1983; Whitaker and 
Whitaker, 1986 
Nicander of Colophon [ 135-133? BC] 
Hakansson, 1981 
Fayrer, 1870; Nicholson, 1870; Wasey, 1892; 
Evans, 1903; Joynson, 1917; Wall, 1924; 
Berridge, 1935; Mustill, 1936; Smith, 
1936; Oliver, 1956; Leakey, 1969; Ionides 
and Leakey in Soderberg, 1973; 
Burchfield, 1977; Whitaker, 1977, 1978; 
Reitinger and Lee, 1978; Daniel, 1983; 
Gurung, 1983; Whitaker and Whitaker, 
1986; Dattatri, 1987; Mehrtens, 1987; 
Shine, 1988 
Gesneri, 1551-1587; Topsell, 1608 
Fitzgerald and Mengden, 1987 
Fleay, 1943; Edwards and Wells in Shine, 
1988; Shine, 1989 
Bertin and Burton, 1967 
Semper, 1881; ?Sundowner, 1895, 1902*; 
Smedley, 1931; Neill, 1964b, Taylor, 1965 
Herre and Rabor, 1949 
Hibbard, 1964 
Whitfield, 1983++ 
Mell, 1929 
Bogert, 1940 
Anderson, 1942; Fitch, 1960; Kennedy, 1964 
Wharton, 1960, 1966 
Smith, 1915, 1943; Tweedie, 1954; Leakey, 
1969; Campden-Main, 1970; Reitinger and 
Lee, 1978; Liat, 1982; York and 
Burghardt, 1988; Gloyd and Conant, 1989 
