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Appendix B
Representative Lethal Potency Ranges
and Yields of Duvernoy's Secretions
and Venoms from Selected Non-
Front-Fanged Colubroid Snakes
Species (Family,
Subfamily)
Yield
a
Range of
Reported
Murine LD
50
mg/kg (Route)
a
Reference
Liquid (
μ
L)
Dry (mg)
Alsophis
[
Borikenophis
]
portoricensis
(Dipsadidae,
Xenodontinae)
160
b
5.9
2.1 mg/kg (i.p.,
murine) 3.8 mg/
kg (i.p., anoline
lizard)
c
Weldon and
Mackessy
(2010)
Boiga
[
Toxicodryas
]
blandingi
(Colubridae,
Colubrinae)
147.5
1.6
2.85 (i.p.)-4.88
(i.p.)
Levinson et al.
(1976);
Weinstein and
Smith (1993)
Boiga
dendrophila
(Colubridae,
Colubrinae)
127.5
8.0
3.26 (i.p.)-4.85
(i.v.)
Sakai et al.
(1984);
Weinstein and
Smith (1993)
Boiga irregularis
(Colubridae,
Colubrinae)
40-500
d
0.642-19.2
d
10.50 (i.p.)-
80.00 (i.v.)
d
Vest et al.
(1991);
Weinstein et al.
(1991); Chiszar
et al. (1992);
Mackessy et al.
(2006)
Spalerosophis
diadema cliffordi
(Colubridae,
Colubrinae)
0.09
NR
2.75 (i.v.)
Rosenberg et al.
(1985)
(
Continued
)
