What is the the most poisonous snake?

Answer 1

The most poisonous snake would fall in Sea snake category. Since a sea snake would devour on most occasion the cold blooded prey other than a worm blooded one. (A cold blooded prey would require comparatively more stronger venom to be killed than a worm blooded one). And all these in a diluted medium! So the poison of a snake has to be stronger than their land counterparts.

The most poisonous land snake is the KRAIT snake. But amazingly most people in SE Asia die from cobras and not krait. Although cobra venom is not that much stronger than the kraits. The logic behind the mortality lies from the fact that cobra can eject more venom owing to its bigger body size.

The most venomous snake on earth is the Belcher's Sea Snake (Hydrophis Belcheri) or the Faint Banded Sea Snake, some consider the Inland Taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) an/or the Beaked Sea Snake (Enhydrina schistosa) to be the most toxic, however, with recent and more accurate studies prove the Belcheri has a 100 times more toxic venom then the two above or any other snake on earth.

It has a paddle-like tail, breathes air and can hold it's breath up to 8 hours, a few milligrams of venom can kill over a thousand people.

It's habitat is a wide range in the South Pacific.

Excluding the Belcher's Sea Snake the next most venomous snakes on earth according to their venom rating are:

2- Inland Tiapan (Oxyuranus Microlepidotus).

3- Common Indian Krait (Bungarus Caeruleus).

4- Philippine Cobra (Naja Philippinensis).

5- King Cobra (Ophiophagus Hanna).

6- Russell's Viper (Vipera Russellii).

7- Black Mamba (Dendroaspis Polylepis).

8- Yellow Jawed Tommygoff (Bothrops Asper).

9- Multibanded krait (Bungarus Multicinctus).

10- Tigar Snake (Notechis Scutatus).

11- Jararacussu (Bothrops Jararacussu).

Answer 2

black mamba