Eastern green mamba
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The eastern green mamba is a highly venomous snake species of the mamba genus Dendroaspis native to the coastal regions of southern East Africa. Described by Scottish surgeon and zoologist Andrew Smit
Green mamba
An eastern green mamba
A green mamba at a German serpentarium next to shed skin
The eastern green mamba has a rapid-acting venom.
Black mamba
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The black mamba is a species of highly venomous snake belonging to the family Elapidae. It is native to parts of sub-Saharan Africa. First formally described by Albert Günther in 1864, it is the secon
Eastern green mamba
…synonymised with D. angusticeps. In 1896, the Belgian-British zoologist George Albert Boulenger combined the species Dendroaspis angusticeps with the black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), a lumping diagnosis that remained in force until 1946, when the South African herpetologist Vivian FitzSimons published a paper…
Dendroaspis polylepis
The black interior of the mouth of a black mamba
Juvenile in a tree, Kruger National Park, South Africa
A black mamba in defensive posture. Like cobras, the black mamba can spread its neck into a hood to intimidate potential threats (shown here).