carolinensis, Order Insectivora) secrete venomous saliva from enlarged, granular submaxillary salivary glands that discharge at the base of the grooved lower incisors. Their venom immobilizes invertebrate, amphibian or rodent prey and may be used, lethally, in internecine fights. Blarina brevicauda ...
According to the World Health Organization, snakebite is a major health challenge in tropical and sub-tropical countries including India, and therefore, it is considered as a neglected tropical disease1. The “big four” venomous snakes –Daboia russelli,Naja naja,Echis carinatus, andBungarus caeru...
Box jellyfish are found in the shallow, warm waters around Northern Australia and the Indo-Pacific. They inhabit bays and estuaries around New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, California, the Mediterranean Sea, and even the Atlantic Ocean. The species Carybdea sivickisi, Carybdea alata, and Cary...
The lionfish, originally from the Indo-Pacific, has become established in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea as an exotic invasive species. Its presence can impact native fish and invertebrates by directly preying on them or competing for food resources. Recent findings The venom of...
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Worker (Figure 1). Color. Surface of the general body ranging from orange-brown to dark brown; when orange-brown, the head and gaster slightly darker (Figure 1d,f); pilosity yellowish. Pilosity. Filiform, suberect, and abundant, evenly distributed along the entire body surface. Ocular pil...
Unlike Aipysurus which has a relatively stable taxonomic history and is mainly restricted in the Australo-Papuan region, the Hydrophis complex is a far more diverse monophyletic clade that consists of close to 50 species dis- tributed in the waters of Indo-Malayan Archipelago, Indonesia, Australia...
To date, viperids comprise more than 300 species grouped under the three subfamilies of Azemiopinae (Feas vipers), Viperinae (true vipers), and Crotalinae (pit vipers) [3]. The crotalines (pit vipers) are arguably the most speciose (with at least Toxins 2023, 15, 315. https://doi....
wagleri distributes in the western part of the Indo-Malayan Archipelago whereas T. subannulatus are found eastward in islands such as Sulawesi and the Philippines. The venoms of the two congeneric species show remarkable variation in their reverse-phase chromatographic profiles in spite of close ...
3.3.2. Vipers Viperine and crotaline venoms were quite similar, being composed mainly of three dominant protein families: PLA2s, SVMPs and SVSPs (Figure 1). The major difference between the two subfamilies was that KUNs were present in viperines and absent in crotalines. Additionally, ...