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Mussurana (Portugese muçurana)

Mussurana, also commonly known as Portugese muçurana which is of the colubrid snake species that hails from Central America and South America. They are known to attack and eat other snakes which explains why they are specialize in ophiophagy. That aside, they are capable of growing up to 240cm long at most during adulthood. They also have rear fangs that produce mild venom but it does not affect human greatly. Not only that, they are not affected to other venom of the snakes they fed on, similarly like the other pit vipers.