jenis-jenis ular
Reptil yang satu ini memang sudah akrab di kehidupah kita, sehingga kehidupan tentang ular menimbulkan keingin tahuan kita. Beikut ini adalah jenis-jenis ular yang biasa kita kenal. Baik ular yang berbisa (memiliki racun, venom), maupun yang tidak. Akan tetapi tidak perlu terlalu kuatir bila bertemu ular. Dari antara yang berbisa, kebanyakan bisanya tidak cukup berbahaya bagi manusia.
Lagipula, umumnya ular pergi menghindar bila bertemu orang. Ular-ular primitif, seperti ular kawat, ular karung, ular kepala dua, dan ular sanca, tidak berbisa. Ular-ular yang berbisa kebanyakan termasuk suku Colubridae; akan tetapi bisanya umumnya lemah saja.
Jenis ular-ular yang berbisa kuat di Indonesia biasanya termasuk ke dalam salah satu suku ular berikut: Elapidae (ular sendok, ular belang, ular cabai, dll.), Hydrophiidae (ular-ular laut), dan Viperidae (ular tanah, ular bangkai laut, ular bandotan).
Berikut ini beberapa jenis-jenis ular yang ada di indonesia:
suku Typhlopidae ular kawat (Rhamphotyphlops braminus)
suku Cylindrophiidae ular kepala-dua (Cylindrophis ruffus)
suku Pythonidae
- ular sanca kembang (Python reticulatus)
- ular peraca (P. curtus)
- ular sanca hijau. (Morelia viridis�)
suku Acrochordidae ular karung (Acrochordus javanicus)
suku Xenopeltidae ular pelangi (Xenopeltis unicolor)
suku Colubridae
- Ular kisik alias ular lare angon, Xenochrophis vittatus
- ularsiput (Pareas carinatus)
- ular-air pelangi (Enhydris enhydris)
- ular kadut belang (Homalopsis buccata)
- ular cecak (Lycodon capucinus)
- ular gadung (Ahaetulla prasina)
- ular cincin mas (Boiga dendrophila)
- ular terbang (Chrysopelea paradisi)
- ular tambang (Dendrelaphis pictus)
- ular birang (Oligodon octolineatus)
- ular tikus atau ular jali (Ptyas korros)
- ular babi (Elaphe flavolineata)
- ular serasah (Sibynophis geminatus)
- ular sapi (Zaocys carinatus)
- ular picung (Rhabdophis subminiata)
- ular kisik (Xenochrophis vittatus)
suku Elapidae
- ular cabai (Maticora intestinalis)
- ular weling (Bungarus candidus)
- ular sendok (Naja spp.)
- ular king-cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)
suku Viperidae
- ular bandotan puspo (Vipera russelli)
- ular tanah (Calloselasma rhodostoma)
- ular bangkai laut (Trimeresurus albolabris)
Kalau mau tahu jenis- jenis ular yang ada didunia bisa di lihat di wikipedia
Sumber: Wikipedia, gambar national geographic
Common name: Eastern Russell's viper,[2] Siamese Russell's viper,[3] more.
Daboia russelii siamensis is a venomous viper subspecies[4] that is found only in parts of Southeast Asia, southern China and Taiwan.The color-pattern is the same as for D. r. russelii, except that the color is more grayish or olive, with small spots between the large spot rows. Venter suffused with gray posteriorly.[5]
[edit] Common names
Eastern Russell's viper,[2] Siamese Russell's viper. Previously, other common names were used to described subspecies that are now part of the synonymy of this form: Indonesian Russell's viper for limitis, and Formosan Russell's viper for formosensis.[3]
[edit] Geographic range
Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, China (Kwangsi, Kwangtung), Taiwan and Indonesia (Endeh, Flores, east Java, Komodo, Lomblen Islands).[1]
Brown (1973) mentions that D. russelii (i.e. D. r. siamensis) can also found in Vietnam, Laos and on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.[6] Ditmars (1937) reportedly received a specimen from Sumatra as well.[7] However, its distribution in the Indonesian archipelago is still being elucidated.[8]
[edit] Venom
A monovalent antivenin, called "Russell's Viper Antivenin", is made in Thailand by the Thai Red Cross to counteract the venom of this subspecies.[2]