Bungarus multicinctus

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Bungarus multicinctus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae
Genus: Bungarus
Species: B. multicinctus
Binomial name
Bungarus multicinctus

Bungarus multicinctus (also known as the Taiwanese banded krait) is the species of krait which produces α-bungarotoxin.

A snake of this species was responsible for the death of Joseph Bruno Slowinski.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ch/jbs_mem.htm IN MEMORY OF Joseph B. Slowinski] at Natural History Museum

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