Category: Venomous

Venomous (Neurotoxic)
Common Name: Common Indian cobra/ Spectacled cobra
Odia Name: ନାଗ
Zoological Name: Naja naja
Family: Elapidae
WL(P)A – Schedule – I

Scales smooth, glossy. Head broad. Colour, pattern, and hood mark variable; hood mark sometimes absent. The famous “spectacled” marking (or variations) on hood usually makes identification easy. The dark or black pattern-less Spectacled Cobras are frequently mistaken for the Central Asian Cobra.

Look-alikes: Indian Rat Snake
Banded Racer

Venomous (Neurotoxic)
Common Name: Monocellate cobra 
Odia Name: ତମ୍ପ
Zoological Name: Naja kaouthia
Family: Elapidae
WL(P)A – Schedule – I

Scales smooth, glossy. Head broad. Colour, pattern, and hood mark variable. Shades of brown, yellow, grey or black, uniform or with ragged yellowish cross-bands. An eye-shaped or “O” shaped hood mark almost always present (sometimes faint, rarely broken up). Hood rounder and smaller than that of Spectacled Cobra.

Look-alikes: Some spectacled cobras

Venomous (Neurotoxic)
Common Name: Common Krait 
Odia Name: ଚିତି
Zoological Name: Bungarus caeruleus
Family: Elapidae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II

Smooth-scaled.Glossy black, pale faded bluish-grey or dark brownish-black above(often with blue iridescence) with narrow (sometimes paired) white cross-linesthat continue to pointed tip of short tail.These lines usually absent on forebody orthey are replaced by white vertebral spots. Mid-dorsal scale hexagonal (6 sided). Often confused with many wolf snakes. A nocturnal snake.

Look-alikes: Common wolf snake
Barred wolf snake
Bridal snake

Venomous (Haemotoxic)
Common Name: Russell’s viper 
Odia Name: ଚନ୍ଦନ ବୋଡା
Zoological Name: Daboia russelii
Family: Viperidae
WL(P)A – Schedule – I

Scales strongly keeled. Stout body, rough appearance. Triangular head broader than neck. The scales on the upper surface of head small strongly keeled. Nostril very large. Vertical pupil in eye. Tail short. Brown or yellowish-brown body with 3 longitudinal series of prominent, large brown or black oval or round spots. Top of the head usually has narrow white ∧ shaped mark and a pair of triangular or oval dark brown markings.

Look-alikes: Common sand boa
Indian rock python

Venomous (Haemotoxic)
Common Name: Saw-scaled viper 
Odia Name: ଧୂଳିଆ ବୋଡା
Zoological Name: Echis carinatus
Family: Viperidae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II

Short & stout body. Scales strongly keeled, rough in appearance. Light, dark brown, brick-red, grey or sand-coloured with zigzag patterns on back. Top of head has usually distinct, arrow-head mark. When alarmed, inflates lung and rubs saw-edged scales together to make a rasping sound.

Look-alikes: Common Cat Snake
Common Sand Boa
Russell’s Kukri Snake

Venomous (Neurotoxic)
Common Name: Banded Krait 
Odia Name: ରଣା
Zoological Name: Bungarus fasciatus
Family: Elapidae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II

Smooth-scaled. Short tail with blunt & rounded tip. Body and tail triangular in cross-section;vertebral ridge prominent.Equally spaced, wide yellow and black bands. Mid-dorsal scale hexagonal (6 sided). Often confused with Banded kukri snakes and many wolf snakes. A nocturnal snake.

Newly hatched snakes have whitish and black bands.

Look-alikes: Banded kukri

Venomous (Neurotoxic)
Common Name: King Cobra 
Odia Name: ଅହିରାଜ
Zoological Name: Ophiophagus hannah
Family: Elapidae
WL(P)A – Schedule – I

Smooth-scaled.Grey, black, dark olive green or yellowish-brown,usually with white or yellowish cross-bands.Hood longer and narrower than that of the other cobras.Bands (if present) on hood and fore body are ‘Ʌ’ shaped. Often confused with bigger rat snakes.

Look-alikes: Indian Rat Snake

Venomous (Haemotoxic)
Common Name: Bamboo pit viper 
Odia Name: ଡାଳୁଆ ବୋଡା
Zoological Name: Trimeresurus gramineus
Family: Viperidae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II

Triangular head distinctly broader than neck. Eye has vertical pupil. Heat sensitive pit between nostril and eye. Usually grass green above. occasionally yellow or olive brown, sometimes with a usually faint, blackish-brown, uneven pattern. Lip scales and underside yellow, white or pale green.

Look-alikes: Green keelback snake
Green vine snake

Venomous
Common Name: RED-NECKED KEELBACK 
Odia Name: ନାଲି-ବେକିଆ ଧଣ୍ଡ
Zoological Name: Rhabdophis subminiatus
Family: Colubridae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II

Scales strongly keeled. Head and front of neck olive brown, sometimes followed by backward-pointing yellow band behind which is bright red interscale colour of neck and forebody: rest of body and tail greyish-olive with faint black and yellow markings.

Look-alikes: Checkered keelback