Table 1.

West Sub-Saharan Africa snakes categorized by the WHO as medically important.

Species	Common Name	Taxid	Family 1	Cat. 2
Bitis arietans	Puff adder	8692	V	1
Bitis gabonica	East African Gaboon viper	8694	V	1
Bitis nasicornis	Rhinoceros viper	8695	V	1
Bitis rhinoceros	West African Gaboon viper	715877	V	1
Cerastes cerastes	Horned viper	8697	V	1
Dendroaspis jamesoni	Jameson’s mamba	8623	E	1
Dendroaspis polylepis	Black mamba	8624	E	1
Dendroaspis viridis	Western green mamba	8621	E	1
Echis jogeri	Joger’s carpet viper	696809	V	1
Echis leucogaster	White-bellied carpet viper	504457	V	1
Echis ocellatus	West African carpet viper	99586	V	1
Naja haje	Egyptian cobra	8639	E	1
Naja katiensis	West African brown spitting cobra	409859	E	1
Naja melanoleuca	Forest cobra	8643	E	1
Naja nigricollis	Black-necked spitting cobra	8654	E	1
Naja senegalensis	Senegalese cobra	862238	E	1
Atheris broadleyi 3	Broadley’s bush viper	NA	V	2
Atheris chlorechis	West African bush viper	110216	V	2
Atheris squamigera	Variable bush viper	110225	V	2
Atractaspis irregularis	Variable burrowing asp	512568	L	2
Dispholidus typus	Boomslang	46295	C	2
Naja annulata	Banded water cobra	8609	E	2
Naja nubiae	Nubian spitting cobra	186441	E	2
Pseudohaje goldii	Gold’s tree cobra	1545503	E	2
Pseudohaje nigra 3	Black tree cobra	NA	E	2
Thelotornis kirtlandii	Forest vine or twig snake	292880	C	2

¹ Taxonomic families: V—Viperidae; E—Elapidae; L—Lamprophiidae; C—Colubridae. ² Category of medical importance as stated in the WHO website. ³ These species did not have a taxonomy identifier and were thus excluded from this study. NA—not available.