lachecis

But against the dark-brown mould of the forest floor on which we found this coral-snake its bright and varied coloration was distinctly revealing; infinitely more so than the duller mottling of the jararaca and other dangerous snakes of the genus lachecis.

VIII. The River of Doubt 1914

From the big lachecis came a large quantity of yellow venom, a liquid which speedily crystallized into a number of minute crystals.

I. The Start 1914

But the large majority of the species and individuals of dangerous snakes in tropical America are included in the genus lachecis.

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These poisons are somewhat different and moreover there appear to be some differences between the poisons of the different species of lachecis; in some cases the poison is nearly colorless, and in others, as in that of the jararaca, whose poison I saw, it is yellow.

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He has been able to produce two distinct kinds of anti-venom serum, one to neutralize the virulent poison of the rattlesnake’s bite, the other to neutralize the poison of the different snakes of the lachecis genus.

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A mussurama in his possession, which had with impunity killed and eaten several rattlesnakes and representatives of the lachecis genus, also killed and ate a venomous coral-snake, but shortly afterward itself died from the effects of the poison.

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The rattlesnake yielded a much less quantity of white venom, which the doctor assured us was far more active than the yellow lachecis venom.

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The numerous accidents and fatalities continually occurring in Brazil are almost always to be laid to the account of the several species of lachecis and the single species of rattlesnake.

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It lives exclusively on other snakes, and is completely immune to the poison of the lachecis and rattlesnake groups, which contain all the really dangerous snakes of America.

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The rattlesnake yielded a much less quantity of white venom, which the doctor assured us was far more active than the yellow lachecis venom.

Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888