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I am looking at the Madagascarophis colubrinus up for sale and was curious at the venom strength. Along with this are their other rear fanged whose venom is weak enough to be consider a non 'hot'? For example, I undertsnad that teh hog nose is technically venomous. Are their others whose level of toxicity is so low they can be grouped with non venomous?

Pick your state. There seems to be no "uniform" definition of what is Hot and what is Not from state to state. In Florida they are considered Hot.

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

>>I am looking at the Madagascarophis colubrinus up for sale and was curious at the venom strength.

Sort of an uknown last I checked. There is one bite report in a field guide that I have not read. I gather it sounded worse that what you typically hear from Mangrove bites but there are always individuals who can have bad reactions. A sample size of one is not that useful here.

Also, it's highly unlikely that the M. colubrinus for sale are actually M. colubrinus. I have seen a lot of Madagascarophis for sale and there were only two that were M. colubrinus. The rest were all M. ocellatus or possibly M. meridionalis.

Regardless, they are cool snakes. But I encourage you to key yours out if you get them. It's very easy.

I have posted the key here on Kingsnake. A search should turn it up.

It was my impression that there are no deadly snakes on the island of madagascar.

However, I've been wrong before......

There are no deadly snakes that I know of. But there are some (like Liohetrodon) that are mild to moderately venemous.

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."