Swamp mokassin (Agkistrodon piscivorus) at Mineola Nature Preserve, Texas, USA. Poisonous snake of the pit viper group.
Poison: cytotoxin (consequence: ev. local necrosis), hematotoxin (consequence: e. hemolysis), pro-coagulants (consequence: ev. dissaminated intravascular coagulation), myotoxines (consequence: ev. muscular damage, secondary kidney damage); ev. hemorrhagines (consequence: ev. hemorrhages). Lethal end possible, but rare.
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