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Table 1 List of snake species recorded in Meserani Juu village (Monduli district) and Lesiraa village (Arumeru district) in the Arusha region. The list is based on dead snakes collected in field and identified by a specialist

From: Snakes and snakebite envenoming in Northern Tanzania: a neglected tropical health problem

Scientific name

Common name

Family

Number of specimens identified

Venomous or non-venomous

Bitis arietans

Puff adder

Viperidae

5

Venomous

Naja nigricollis

Black-necked spitting cobra

Elapidae

2

Venomous

Dasypeltis scabra

Common egg eater

Colubridae

1

Non-venomous

Ramphiophis rostratus

Rufous-beaked snake

Colubridae

2

Venomousa

Eryx colubrinus

Kenyan sand boa

Boidae

1

Non-venomous

Dendroaspis polylepis

Black mamba

Elapidae

1

Venomous

Lamprophis fuliginosus

Brown house snake

Colubridae

2

Non-venomous

  1. aThis colubrid species possesses venom-secreting glands, but due to the disposition of fangs (opisthoglyphous), bites associated with envenomings in humans are unlikely