Carpet Viper Range

The west african carpet viper is a small snake with an average total length of approximately 20 inches 1 5 feet.

Carpet viper range.

Saw scaled vipers carpet vipers is a genus of venomous vipers found in the dry regions of africa the middle east india sri lanka and pakistan. They have a characteristic threat display rubbing sections of their body together to produce a sizzling warning sound. It is found in the middle east in sinai israel and jordan. It is very common in its range and accounts for many snakebites and fatalities a year.

Incredibly for a snake with a relatively small range it is along with the puff adder often cited as being responsible for the highest number of snakebite related fatalities in africa. Burton s carpet viper is the name given to echis coloratus or painted saw scaled viper of eastern egypt palestine syria and israel. This is typically a desert species. One hundred and fifteen patients with poisoning caused by its bite were studied in the savanna region of nigeria where victims of this snake may occupy 10 per cent of hospital beds.

On the arabian peninsula it has been recorded from saudi arabia yemen and oman. The saw scaled or carpet viper echis carinatus whose range extends from senegal to bengal probably bites and kills more people than any other species of snake. The ocellated carpet viper or echis ocellatus inhabits the countries of senegal gambia and gulf of guinea in the african continent.