Oman Carpet Viper

They have a characteristic threat display rubbing sections of their body together to produce a sizzling warning sound.

Oman carpet viper.

The snake feeds on. Oman saw scaled viper echis omanensis babocsay or the carpet viper echis carinatus is a colourful heavy bodied and short ish. Until recently treated as a local variant of the painted carpet viper echis coloratus the oman carpet viper is endemic to northern oman and northeastern uae. Saw scaled vipers carpet vipers is a genus of venomous vipers found in the dry regions of africa the middle east india sri lanka and pakistan.

Burton s carpet viper is the name given to echis coloratus or painted saw scaled viper of eastern egypt palestine syria and israel. The ocellated carpet viper or echis ocellatus inhabits the countries of senegal gambia and gulf of guinea in the african continent. It gives live birth instead of laying eggs. Echis coloratus is a venomous viper species endemic to the middle east and egypt.

Follow steve backshall to oman where he plans to drop nearly 1 300 feet into the deepest canyon in southern arabia. This was the third target species of the trip and to find it required a trip to eastern sharjah into the rocky mountains around wadi al helo. Finding a carpet viper. During an abseil the expedition team.

Oman saw scaled viper echis omanensis found in the united arab emirates displaying defensive behaviour. This is typically a desert species. Painted saw scaled viper painted carpet viper burton s carpet viper more. Daniel heuclin ocellated carpet viper echis ocellatus captive from mauritania to cameroon.