Venomous animals include:
Arachnids
- Strictly speaking, all spiders and scorpions possess venom, though only a handful are medically significant.
- Australian funnel-web spider
- Black widow spider
- Brazilian wandering spider
- Brown recluse spider
- Katipo
- Redback spider
- Tarantulas
- Scorpions: Of more than a thousand known species of scorpion, only a few have venom that is dangerous to humans.
- Paralysis tick
Cephalopods
- Blue-ringed octopus
Cnidaria
- Jellyfish sting using microscopic cells called nematocysts, which are capsules full of venom expelled through a microscopic lance. Contact with a jellyfish tentacle can trigger millions of nematocysts to pierce the skin and inject venom.
- Portuguese Man o' War
- Sea Anemones
- Some Corals
Crustacean
- The remipede Xibalbanus tulumensis looks like a white centipede with a long segmented body and scores of legs which display a swimming motion. They live in underground caves of Mexico and Central America. Although blind, they are formidable predators, and feed on the shrimp that share their underground pools.
Dinosaurs
- Some scientists have proposed that Sinornithosaurus had a venomous bite, but recent evidence suggests otherwise.
Fish
There are at least 1,200 species of venomous fish, and they include
- The Stonefish, Lionfish, Scorpion Fish, Stargazer, and Toadfish (Daector and Thalassophryne).
- Stingrays
- Catfishes
- Dogfish sharks
- Chimaeras
Insects
- Bees
- Wasps
- Ants
- Certain Caterpillars
Mammals
- European mole
- Platypus (male)
- Elliot's short-tailed shrew
- Eurasian water shrew
- Northern short-tailed shrew
- Southern short-tailed shrew
- Cuban solenodon
- Hispaniolan solenodon
- Slow loris
Reptiles
- Venomous snakes
- boomslang
- cobra
- common krait
- Russell's viper
- Venomous lizards
- Gila monster
- Mexican beaded lizard
- Certain members of the genus Varanus, such as the perentie and Komodo dragon.
Amphibians
- Iberian ribbed newt
- Corythomantis greeningi
- Aparasphenodon brunoi
See also
- Venomous mammals
- Venomous fish
- Venomous snake
- Toxic birds
References
External links
- 10 Most Venomous Animals