During 1965–2011, 2447 snakebites from this snake are reported with one fatality.[8]
Geographic range
It is found in
Japan in the southern
Ryukyu Islands, specifically in the
Yaeyama Islands.[1] The
type locality is unknown. Boulenger listed it as "---- ?" while Gray's original 1849 description gives "West Coast of [North?] America." A restriction to "
Ishigaki-Shima [Ryukyu Islands, Japan]" was proposed by Stejneger (1907).[2]
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abMcDiarmid RW,
Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
ISBN1-893777-00-6 (series).
ISBN1-893777-01-4 (volume).
^Mehrtens JM. 1987. Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp.
ISBN0-8069-6460-X.
^Brown JH. 1973. Toxicology and Pharmacology of Venoms from Poisonous Snakes. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. 184 pp. LCCCN 73-229.
ISBN0-398-02808-7.
^Seiko Matsuda.
沖縄県における平成23 年の毒蛇咬症 [2011 Venomous Snakebite in Okinawa Prefecture] (PDF) (in Japanese). Okinawa Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment, Hygiene Science Group Eiko Maho. Archived from
the original(PDF) on 2013-05-02. Retrieved 2013-03-11.
Further reading
Gray, J.E. 1849. Catalogue of the Specimens of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. Trustees of the British Museum. London. xv + 125 pp. (Craspedocephalus elegans, p. 7.)