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List of venomous animals

Venomous animals include:

Contents

Arachnids

  • Strictly speaking, all spiders and scorpions possess venom, though only a handful are medically significant.
  • Australian funnel-web spider
  • Black widow spider
  • Brazilian wandering spider
  • Brown recluse spider
  • Katipo
  • Redback spider
  • Tarantulas
  • Scorpions: Of more than a thousand known species of scorpion, only a few have venom that is dangerous to humans.
  • Paralysis tick

    • Cephalopods

  • Blue-ringed octopus

    • Cnidaria

  • Jellyfish sting using microscopic cells called nematocysts, which are capsules full of venom expelled through a microscopic lance. Contact with a jellyfish tentacle can trigger millions of nematocysts to pierce the skin and inject venom.
  • Portuguese Man o' War
  • Sea Anemones
  • Some Corals

    • Crustacean

  • The remipede Xibalbanus tulumensis looks like a white centipede with a long segmented body and scores of legs which display a swimming motion. They live in underground caves of Mexico and Central America. Although blind, they are formidable predators, and feed on the shrimp that share their underground pools.

    • Dinosaurs

  • Some scientists have proposed that Sinornithosaurus had a venomous bite, but recent evidence suggests otherwise.

    • Fish

    There are at least 1,200 species of venomous fish, and they include

  • The Stonefish, Lionfish, Scorpion Fish, Stargazer, and Toadfish (Daector and Thalassophryne).
  • Stingrays
  • Catfishes
  • Dogfish sharks
  • Chimaeras

    • Insects

  • Bees
  • Wasps
  • Ants
  • Certain Caterpillars

    • Mammals

  • European mole
  • Platypus (male)
  • Elliot's short-tailed shrew
  • Eurasian water shrew
  • Northern short-tailed shrew
  • Southern short-tailed shrew
  • Cuban solenodon
  • Hispaniolan solenodon
  • Slow loris

    • Reptiles

  • Venomous snakes
  • boomslang
  • cobra
  • common krait
  • Russell's viper
  • Venomous lizards
  • Gila monster
  • Mexican beaded lizard
  • Certain members of the genus Varanus, such as the perentie and Komodo dragon.

    • Amphibians

  • Iberian ribbed newt
  • Corythomantis greeningi
  • Aparasphenodon brunoi

    • References

    List of venomous animals Wikipedia
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