Reptile & Amphibian Forums

I have a friend going to the Sudan for a mission trip and have been trying to find out about venomous snakes there with little success. Does anyone know of any websites that could help me or even just a list would help.

Thanks,
Rocket

I was not able to find a "species list" of venomous snakes within Sudan, however, I will try to narrow the search parameters for the more experienced hot-keepers among you.
At the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (Denmark) link
http://www.gbif.net/portal/ecat_list.jsp?taxonKey=60795&countryKey=201&resourceKey=0&nextTask=ecat_browser.jsp
I found a list of all the "animals" found in Sudan (there's a parallel list of plants and fungi which I did not include in my search), some of which may be the animals of which you seek (once you’re outside of ‘Caudata’, I’m pretty well lost).
I realise that this list does not completely answer your question, but it may prove to be of some modest use to your hot-keeping peers if they can just look down the species names to check if they recognise anything (are not ‘Boiga’ some sort of tree snake/cat snake?).
Or, you could do it the hard way by doing a cut-&-paste in AltaVista.com or Google.com with each species name to see what comes up.
Cheers und gluck
Wes
http://www.gbif.net/portal/ecat_list.jsp?taxonKey=60795&countryKey=201&resourceKey=0&nextTask=ecat_b

Try the book by Stephen Spawls & Bill Branch: The Dangerous Snakes of Africa

Tom

Do a search of the EMBL reptile database: http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/LivingReptiles.html

Cheers,

Wolfgang
-----
WW Home

Wolfgang;
From the Canadian Army - Preventive Medicine Technician branch ... great site and thanks for the link!
Part of the pre-deployment documentation for our soldiers going overseas on peacekeeping missions is a package describing the various "can't touch this" critters found in the problem country. Plus, by knowing what critters are in-situ (and their frequency and local distribution), we know what priority to give to what type of anti-venin. One of the big research problems our med-techs had was to determine what critters were in what (generally) under-reported area. Your lead was a laser-jump over what they used before.
They send their thanks, and I look like a god (albeit a minor one) for passing it on to them. I wish I had a hero-cookie for you, but you'll have to settle for the knowledge that just perhaps the link you revealed will prevent somebody wearing a blue beret from getting seriously hurt by the local wildlife.
Thanks again
respectfully; Wes

Thanks for the replies. I am off to follow your links.