Description

Dendroaspis Polylepis Venom | Black Mamba Venom:

Dendroaspis Polylepis Venom | Black Mamba Venom is extracted from a snake called Dendroaspis Polylepis.

More details about Dendroaspis Polylepis Venom | Black Mamba Venom:

Purity	> 99 %
Form	Lyophilized Powder
Packaging	In vacuum sealed glass vials, in secured parcel.

Taxonomic Classification:

Name	Dendroaspis Polylepis
Common Name(s)	Black Mamba
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Squamata
Suborder	Serpentes
Family	Elapidae
Genus	Dendroaspis Polylepis
Species	D. polylepis

About Dendroaspis Polylepis Snake:

The black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) 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 second-longest venomous snake after the king cobra; mature specimens generally exceed 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and commonly grow to 3 m (9 ft 10 in).

Specimens of 4.3 to 4.5 m (14 ft 1 in to 14 ft 9 in) have been reported. Its skin colour varies from grey to dark brown. Juvenile black mambas tend to be paler than adults and darken with age.

Taxonomy:

The first formal description of the black mamba was made in 1864 by German-born British zoologist Albert Günther.

A single specimen was one of many species of snake collected by John Kirk, a naturalist who accompanied David Livingstone on the 1858–1864 Second Zambesi expedition.

This specimen is the holotype and is housed in the Natural History Museum, London.

The generic name of the species is derived from the Ancient Greek words dendron (δένδρον), “tree”, and aspis (ἀσπίς) “asp“, and the specific epithet polylepis is derived from the Ancient Greek poly (πολύ) meaning “many” and lepis (λεπίς) meaning “scale”.

Description:

The black mamba is a long, slender, cylindrical snake. It has a coffin-shaped head with a somewhat pronounced brow ridge and a medium-sized eye.

The adult snake’s length typically ranges from 2 to 3 m (6 ft 7 in to 9 ft 10 in) but specimens have grown to lengths of 4.3 to 4.5 m (14 ft 1 in to 14 ft 9 in).

It is the longest species of venomous snake in Africa and the second-longest venomous snake species overall, exceeded in length only by the king cobra.

The black mamba is a proteroglyphous (front-fanged) snake, with fangs up to 6.5 mm (0.26 in) in length, located at the front of the maxilla.