Only 1 in 30 People Can Name All of These Venomous Animals from an Image. Can You?

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About This Quiz

The world in which we live can be a very dangerous place, not only because of vehicular accidents and crime but because of the many animals and organisms that surround us. While most of the creatures only strike because they feel threatened, there are some that will attack at the first sign of movement.Â

Many of the different venoms contain neurotoxins, cardiotoxins, hemotoxins and mycotoxins that cause symptoms such as dizziness, extreme swelling and pain, paralysis, internal bleeding, cardiac arrest, respiratory failure and in some cases, death.

The word venomous is often mistaken for poisonous probably because they have similar effects, but the two are different based on the mechanisms of delivery. Venomous creatures need to bite, sting, or stab its victims while poisonous animals need to be either ingested or touched to feel its effects.

Most people know about the Portuguese man o' war, the box jellyfish, the king cobra and the black mamba, but how many others do you know? If you were given a picture, would you be able to identify them or tell us where in the world these animals are found? The only way to find out just how much you know is to take this quiz!

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Motoro ray

Box jellyfish

Nurse shark

Spotted gar

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Black spotted newt

Argentine leaf frog

Gila monster

Amazon horned frog

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Lionfish

Banded cat shark

Alligator gar

Bichir

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Black widow spider

Caiman lizard

Emperor scorpion

Silver argiope

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Chinese alligator

Banded day gecko

Green iguana

King cobra

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American bullfrog

Saw scaled viper

Golden mantella

Hellbender

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Bess beetle

Mole cricket

Marbled cone snail

False katydid

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Russell's viper

Scale insect

Milkweed bug

Desert millipede

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Tomato frog

Duck-billed platypus

Mudpuppy

Fire salamander

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Marabou stork

Cape thick-knee

Scarlet macaw

Katipo

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Guinea pig

Black lemur

Tiger snake

Omate box turtle

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

King cobra

Sawu python

Timber rattlesnake

Coral snake

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Pirarucu

Archer fish

Blue-ringed octopus

Clownfish

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Longnosed snake

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake

Blood python

Texas lyre snake

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Frilled lizard

Death stalker scorpion

Alligator snapper

Water monitor

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Stonefish

Chinese emperor

Toadfish

Pufferfish

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Kori bustard

Wattled crane

Jararaca

Moray eel

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Green puffer

Pecos pupfish

Dragonfish

Irukandji jellyfish

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Komodo dragon

Mexican beaded lizard

Blue-tongued skink

Madagascar day gecko

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Brown widow

House spider

Redback spider

Whip scorpion

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Catfish

Nurse shark

Yellow tang

Garibaldi

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Black widow

Whip scorpion

Fat-tailed scorpion

Bark scorpion

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Gaboon viper

Dubois sea snake

Hognosed viper

Tentacled snake

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Electric eel

Golden butterfly fish

Archer fish

Blue spotted ribbontail stingray

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Brazilian wandering spider

Golden silk spider

Long bodied cellar spider

Trap door spider

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Bolkar vipar

Inland taipan

Corn snake

Fea's viper

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Rosy boa

Jamaican boa

King brown snake

Yangtze mamushi

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Indian Cobra

Stuart's milk snake

Reticulated python

Ocellated mountain viper

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Mt. Man pitviper

Northern death adder

Black mamba

Leaf-nosed viper

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Red-kneed tarantula

Brown recluse

Cobalt blue spider

Desert hairy scorpion

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Aruba island rattlesnake

Black rat snake

Southern twig snake

Western green mamba

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Dumeril's boa

Great basin gopher snake

Common krait

Moorish viper

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Indian red scorpion

Green iguana

Leopard gecko

Rhinoceros iguana

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Peruvian pink-toe tarantula

Funnel-web spider

Spiny orb-weaving spider

Brazilian whiteknee tarantula

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Boomslang

Black rat snake

Burmese python

Boelen's python

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Madagascar ground boa

Madagascar tree boa

Coastal taipan

Madagascar rattlesnake

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Missouri tarantula

Mouse spider

Tailless whip scorpion

Trapdoor spider

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Hellbender

TIger salamander

Iberian ribbed newt

Portuguese man o' war

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Mongoose lemur

Coquerel's sifaka

Slow loris

Black lemur

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Reticulated python

Yellow bellied sea snake

Rosy boa

Ridgenosed rattlesnake

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Yangtze mamushi

Timber rattlesnake

Beaked sea snake

Sawu python

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Eurasian water shrew

Giant anteater

Woodchuck

Springhaas

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

St. Vincent agouti

Kangaroo rat

Cuban solenodon

Naked mole rat

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Sea star

Fire ant

Desert hairy scorpion

Giant tropical roach

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Grand canyon rattlesnake

Rattlesnake

Leafnosed viper

Ocellate mountain viper

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Bark scorpion

Brazilian salmon pink birdeater

Centipede

Golden silk spider

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Ball python

Central American bushmaster

Moorish viper

Eastern brown snake

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What is the name of this venomous animal?

Monocled cobra

Lataste's viper

Northern death adder

Side-striped palm-pitviper