Check out the following paper:

Salomao, M.G., Albolea, A.B.P. & S.M. Almeida Santos (2003) Colubrid snakebite: a public health problem in Brazil. Herpetological Review 34: 307-312.

Cases described include one case of Liophis miliaris bite which resulted in significant hemorrhage, and the patient was given Bothrops antivenom due to confusion by the doctors (nothing new there...)

The question of whether the fangs of colubrid snakes are grooved or not is pretty irrelevant both biologically and clinically, since snakes with ungrooved fangs can also get their venom in. Ask the Japanese farmers bitten by the ungrooved Rhabdophis trigrinus - Oh, sorry, you can't, they bled to death.


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