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%D Submitted
%T The Animal World of Netherlands New Guinea
%A Brongersma, L. D.
%C Groningen
%I J.B. Wolters
%M PR0000279
%P 25-40, 70
%X About 50 species of land snake and 17 species of sea snake; one third of the land snakes venomous; only a few dangerous to man; cases of snake bite rare; very few fatal cases recorded; death adder found in Lowlands, abundant on Biak Is.; many cases of snake bite on Numfor Is.; small-eyed snake may be dangerous; some species of <i>Pseudechis</i> in Southern New Guinea.
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