LD50 - subcutaneous (original) (raw)

Scientific name

Common name

LD-50 (mg/kg)

Notes

Oxyuranus microlepidotus

Inland taipan

0.025

Formerly known as fierce snake or small-scaled snake

Pseudonaja textilis

Eastern brown snake

0.0365

Aipysurus duboisii

Dubois's sea snake

0.044

Pelamis platurus

Yellow bellied sea snake

0.067

Acalyptophis peronii

Horned sea snake

0.079

Oxyuranus scutellatus

Coastal taipan

0.106

Oxyuranus scutellatus canni (Papua New Guinea taipan) should be considered as having the same venom composition until proven otherwise

Bungarus multicinctus

Many banded krait

0.108

Hydrophis melanosoma

Black banded sea snake

0.111

Enhydrina schistosa

Beaked sea snake

0.1125

Boulengeria christyi

Congo water cobra

0.12

Notechis a. niger

Peninsula tiger snake

0.131

Boulengeria annulata

Banded water cobra

0.143

Echis carinatus

Saw-scaled viper

0.151

Species complex, geographical data not given

Hydrophis stricticollis

sea snake species

0.164

Hydrophis major

Olive-headed sea snake

0.193

Notechis a. occidentalis

Western tiger snake

0.194

Crotalus tigris

Tiger rattlesnake

0.21

Notechis scutulatus

Mainland tiger snake

0.214

Hydrophis elegans

Elegant sea snake

0.26

Aipysurus laevi

Olive sea snake

0.264

Laticauda semifasciata

Broad banded sea krait

0.273

Naja atra

Chinese cobra

0.29

Dendroaspis polylepsis

Black mamba

0.32

Notechis a. serventyi

Chapel island tiger snake

0.338

Hydrophis nigrocinctus

Duadin's sea snake

0.343

Crotalus scututatus

Mojave green rattlesnake

0.34

Bungarus caeruleus

Indian krait

0.365

Walterinnesia aegyptia

Desert cobra

0.4

Laticauda colubrina

Wide faced sea krait

0.435

Naja naja

Spectacled cobra

0.45

Careful - any Asiatic cobra may have been referred to as N. naja in the past

Hydrophis cyanocinctus

Annulated sea snake

0.464

Pseudonaja nuchalis

Gwardar/Western brown snake

0.473

Species complex

Acanthophis antarcticus

Common death adder

0.5

Species complex, geographical data not indicated

Austrelaps superbus

Lowland copperhead

0.5

Lapemis hardwickii

Hardwicke's sea snake

0.541

Pseudonaja affinis

Dugite

0.66

Dendroaspis viridis

Western green mamba

0.7

Naja nivea

Cape cobra

0.72

Daboia russelli russelli

Russell's viper subspecies

0.75

Dendroaspis jamesoni

Jameson's mamba

Pseudechis papuanus

Papuan black snake

1.09

Naja haje

Egyptian cobra

1.15

Give locality - southern African forms now regarded as separate species, N. annulifera

Micrurus fulvius

coral snake sp.

1.3

Hoplocephalus stephensi

Stephen's banded snake

1.36

Daboia russelii formosensis

Russell's viper subspecies

1.37

Synonym of D.r. siamensis, locality info lacking

Ophiophagus hannah

King cobra

1.7

Give locality, this species is about to be split

Pseudechis australis

Mulga snake

1.94

Pseudechis porphyriacus

Red-bellied black snake

Pseudechis guttatus

Spotted black snake

2.13

Pseudechis colletti

Collett's snake

2.38

Hemachatus haemachatus

Rinkhals

2.65

Cryptophis nigrescens

Small eyed snake

2.67

Crotalus basciliscus

Mexican west-coast rattlesnake

2.8

Dendroaspis angusticeps

Eastern green mamba

3.05

Crotalus horridus horridus

Timber rattlesnake

3.1

Bungarus fasciatus

Banded krait

3.6

Vipera latifii

True viper species

4.61

Tropidolaemus wagleri

Wagler's viper

6.19

Formerly in Trimeresurus genus

Vipera bornmuelleri

True viper species

6.25

Vipera berus

Adder

6.45

Vipera ammodytes

Long-nosed viper

6.59

Bothrops jararaca

Jararaca

Trimeresurus gramineus

Indian green tree viper

8.6

T. gramineus is a rare species, most venoms thus labelled in the literature come from other species

Deinagkistrodon acutus

Sharp-nosed pit viper

9.2

Fomerly in Agkistrodon genus

Vipera palaestinae

Palestine viper

9.4

Crotalus exul

rattlesnake species

9.92

Bitis gabonica

Gaboon viper

12.5

Trimeresurus albolabris

White lipped tree viper

12.75

Bothrops jararacussu

Jararacussu'

Crotalus polystictus

Mexican blotched rattlesnake

13.3

Bothrops neuwiedi

Jararaca pintada

14.2

Crotalus adamanteus

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake

14.6

Causus rhombeatus

Night adder

Cerastes cerastes

Desert horned viper

Bothrops alternatus

Urutu

15.8

Macrovipera lebetina

Levantine viper

Specimens from N. Africa are referrable to M. mauretanica

Crotalus atrox

Western diamondback rattlesnake

18.5

Gloydius blomhoffi

Mamushi

Bothrops atrox

Terciopelo

Species complex, geographical origin not given

Calloselasma rhodostoma

Malayan pit viper

23.4

Fomerly in Agkistrodon genus.

Crotalus lepidus klauberi

Rock rattlesnake

23.95

Sistrurus milarius barbouri

Red pygmy rattlesnake

24.3

Emydocephalus annulatus

Turtle-headed sea snake

Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix

Southern copperhead

25.6

Agkistrodon piscovorus

Cottomouth/ Water moccasin

25.8

Bothriechis schlegelii

Eyelash viper

33.2

Formerly in Bothrops genus

Lachesis muta

Bushmaster

36.9

Give locality, as L. muta recently split into 3 species

Demansia olivacea

Olive whip snake

714.2