Experts discover new snake species in Australia

KOMPAS.com – Australian scientists have recently discovered a new species of snake venom. Unfortunately, like most new species found by this venomous snake, it is also threatened with extinction due to its dwindling habitat.

The long black snake with white rings all over his body was accidentally discovered by Dr. Bryan Fry of the University of Queensland and his colleagues. When it is discovered, the snake is hiding in a concrete block near a bauxite mine near the sea.

"We saw the snake come out of a bunch of bauxite for transport it to the ship ".

According to Bryan, the snake that he saw does not look like a new species commonly a snake ring, Vermicella annulata which is endemic along the east coast of Australia and is also extremely venomous. The snake is actually two to three times more similar to a snake species from western and northern Australia.

Chantelle Derez's genetic studies confirm that snakes found by Bryan are a new species closely related to snakes from distant geographic regions. 19659003] In an article published in the journal Zootaxa the snake received the scientific name Vermicella parscauda.

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"Poison is very powerful to paralyze Opponent and may leave pain around the site of the bite.

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Nevertheless, Bryan says the future V. parscauda must be worried.Men who focus on the study of the poison called poison snake have been a source of drugs in the past and are supposed to treat dangerous diseases such as lowering blood pressure, curing stroke and treating diabetes.

parscauda is threatened with extinction because its habitat has been transformed into a bauxite mine.

To date, he has discovered five specimens V. parscauda . Unfortunately, three of them die.