Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-therapeutics

by A. Calmette

Total length, 750 millimetres; tail 75.

Habitat Coasts of India and Ceylon.

Fig. 82.—Enhydrina valakadien (syn. E. bengalensis).

(8) Enhydrina.

Two large poison-fangs, followed by 4 solid non-grooved teeth. Body moderately elongate; scales imbricate; ventrals distinct but very small.

E. valakadien (syn. E. bengalensis; [fig. 82]).—Colour olive or grey, with black transverse bands, usually less distinct in the adult; sides and belly whitish.

Fig. 83.—Skull of Platurus olubrinus.
(After G. A. Boulenger, op. cit.)

Total length, 1,300 millimetres; tail 190.