AMPHIBIANS:
Poison Dart Frog Dendrobates azureus
Sedgewick County Zoo
http://www.scz.org/animals/f/blufrog2.html

National Aquarium in Baltimore
http://aqua.org/animals_bluepoisondartfrog.html

Animal Diversity - University of Michigan
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/lissamphibia/anura/dendrobatidae.html
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/dendrobates/d._azureus.html

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AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES:
Blue-ringed Octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata
The Cephalopod Page
http://is.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/lunulata.htmlhttp://is.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/lunulata.html

Hapalochlaena lunulata (Greater Blue-Ringed Octopus)
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/hapalochlaena/h._lunulata$narrative.html

California Wild – Eye of the Newt, Skin of Toad, Bile of the Pufferfish
http://www.calacademy.org/calwild/sum98/eye.htm

Corals Catalaphyllia jardinei and Millpora sp.
Elegance Coral (Catalaphyllia jardinei)
http://animalatlas.com/encyclo/reef/lg_stony/elegance.htm

Sea World
http://www.seaworld.org/VirtualAquarium/elegant.html

Coelenterate and Jellyfish Envenomations
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic104.htm

Fire Worm Eurythoe complanata
Fireworm (Eurythoe complanata)
http://www.uab.edu/philosophy/faculty/kincaid/underwater/worm.htm

Marine Invertebrates of Hawaii
http://coralreefnetwork.com/marlife/inverts/annelida.htm#EC

Reefkeeper's Guide to Marine Invertebrates
http://www.aquarium.net/0697/0697_2.shtml

Marbled Cone Snail – Conus marmoreus
Cone Shells by Tidal Region
http://grimwade.biochem.unimelb.edu.au/cone/conetype.html

About Cone Shells
http://grimwade.biochem.unimelb.edu.au/cone/about.html

Cone Shell and Conotoxins Homepage
http://grimwade.biochem.unimelb.edu.au/cone/

Feeding: Preparing for the Kill
http://grimwade.biochem.unimelb.edu.au/~bgl/feeding.htm

Moon Jelly Aurelia labiata
Oregon Coast Aquarium Newport-jelly cam
http://www.aquarium.org/jellies/jellycam.htm

Animal Diversity - University of Michigan
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/aurelia/a._aurita.html

Nudibranch Hermissenda crassicornis
Nudibranch of the Week
http://slugsite.us/bow/nudiwkps/nudiwk24.html

Nudibranch of the Week II
http://slugsite.us/bow/nudwk184.htm

Sea Anenome Heteractis magnifica
Sea Anemone (Heteractis magnifica)
http://www.biodiversity.uno.edu/ebooks/ch1.html

FINS: The Fish Information Service -- Heteractis magnifica
http://fins.actwin.com/species/index.php?t=9&i=296

Sea Wasp JellyChironex fleckeri
Australian Venomous Marine Creatures- Australian Venom Research Unit
http://www.avru.unimelb.edu.au/avruweb/jellyfi.htm#Box Jellyfish

Animal Diversity- University of Michigan
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/chironex/c._fleckeri.html

Waikiki Aquarium
http://waquarium.mic.hawaii.edu/MLP/root/html/MarineLife/Invertebrates/Cnidarians/BoxJelly.html

Upside-down JellyCassiopea andromeda
Animal Diversity - University of Michigan
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/cassiopeia/c._andromeda.html

Tennessee Aquarium
http://www.tnaqua.org/Special/upsidedown.html

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FISH
Dwarf Lionfish Dendrochirus brachypterus
Dwarf Lionfish (Dendrochirus brachypterus)
http://www.avesinternational.com/lionfish.html

Species Summary -- Dendrochirus brachypterus
http://ichtyonb1.mnhn.fr/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?ID=4912&genusname=Dendrochirus&speciesname=brachypterus

Scorpionfish Scorpaena brasiliensis
Species Summary -- Scorpaena brasiliensis
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?ID=3938

Stonefish Synanceia verrucosa

Species Summary -- Synanceia verrucosa
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?ID=5825&genusname=Synanceia&speciesname=verrucosa

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LAND INVERTEBRATES:
Arboreal Tarantula Avicularia avicularia
Arboreal Tarantula/Pink Toe (Avicularia avicularia)
http://www.tarantulas.com/pinktoe.asp

Crystal Palace Reptiles - Arboreal Tarantula/Pink Toe (Avicularia avicularia)
http://freespace.virgin.net/darren.biggs/Caresheets/Inverts/Pink_toe.html

Pinktoe Tarantula Care Sheet
http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/A-avicularia.html

Black Widow Latrodectus hesperus
San Diego Natural History Museum
http://sdnhm.org/fieldguide/inverts/latr-hes.html

Arachnology: The Study of Arachnids
http://www.arachnology.org/Arachnology/Pages/Latrodectus.html

Death Stalker Scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus
Leiurus quinquestriatus picture
http://scorp.hypermart.net/pics/l_quinquestriatus2.jpg

Venom & Stings
http://wrbu.si.edu/www/stockwell/faq/sting.html

Emperor Scorpion Pandinus imperator
Animal Fact Sheets
http://www.zoo.org/educate/fact_sheets/scorpion/emperor.htm

Care Sheet
http://www.arachnophiliac.com/burrow/caresheets/pandinus_imperator.htm

Sea World
http://www.seaworld.org/animalbytes/abscorpion.htm

Giant Hairy Scorpion Hadrurus spadix
Scorpion Fauna of California
http://pw1.netcom.com/~wsavary/calscorps.html

Scott Stockwell Scorpion Photographs
http://wrbu.si.edu/www/stockwell/photos/photos.html

Goliath Bird Eater Theraphosa blondi
Arachnophiliac – Therapohosa blondi Care Sheet
http://www.arachnophiliac.com/burrow/caresheets/theraphosa_blondi.htm

Oriental Tarantula Poecilotheria regalis
Indian Ornamental Tarantula (Poecilotheria regalis)
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/9170/p_regalis.html

South African Fat-tailed Scorpion Parabuthus transvaalensis
Dangerous scorpions
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~chuaeecc/venom/venom2.htm

Poisons and Toxins
http://melkor.unibe.ch:8080/philnat/benjamin.gantenbein.1/resources/poison.html

Sydney Funnel-Web Spider Atrax robustus
Clinical Toxinology- CSL Funnel Web Spider Antivenom
http://www.wch.sa.gov.au/paedm/clintox/cslavh_antivenom_funweb.html

Rochedale School Australia
http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/spider/spider3.htm

Austaralasian Anaesthesia
http://www.usyd.edu.au/anaes/venom/spiders.html#FUNNELWEB

Velvet Ant Hymenoptera
National IPM Network – North Carolina
http://ipm.ncsu.edu/AG268/html/velvet_ants.htm

Pittsylvania County Schools
http://eclipse.dtl.pcs.k12.va.us/vtrail/velvetant.htm

University of Kentucky of Entomology
http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/trees/ef442.htm

Manzanita Project – California Academy of Sciences
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-taxon=Dasymutilla+sp.

Vietnamese Giant CentipedeScolopendra subpinipes
Urban Knowledge Master
http://www.extento.hawaii.edu/kbase/urban/Site/Centip.htm

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MAMMALS
Solenodon Solenodon paradoxus
Animal Diversity - University of Michigan
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/solenodon/s._paradoxus.html

Haitian Solenodon
http://www.animalinfo.org/species/solepara.htm

Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Animal Diversity Web – University of Michigan
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/monotremata/ornithorhynchidae.html

Creature World – Platypus
http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/aust/plat/index.html

Slow Loris Nycticebus coucang
Animal Diversity Web – University of Michigan
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/nycticebus/n._coucang$narrative.html

Duke Primate Center
http://www.duke.edu/web/primate/slowlor.html

Trowbridge Shrew Sorex trowbridgii

Trowbridge's Shrew
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/mammalogy/mamwash/sotr.html

Biodiversity of the Truckee, Carson and Walker Watersheds
http://www.npr.unr.edu/conserve_species/trow_shrw.html

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REPTILES:
Copperhead Agkistrodon contortrix
Animal Diversity – University of Michigan
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/agkistrodon/a._contortrix$narrative.html

Massachussets Snakes
http://www.umass.edu/umext/nrec/snake_pit/pages/copper.html

Coral Snake Micrurus fulvius

Florida Venomous Snakes
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/fl-guide/venomsnk.htm

Animal Diversity Web- University of Michigan
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/micrurus/m._fulvius$narrative.html

Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum
Animal Diversity Web -University of Michigan
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/heloderma/h._suspectum$narrative.html

Gila Monster – Desert USA
http://www.desertusa.com/sep97/du_gilamonster.html

Nashville Zoo
http://www.nashvillezoo.org/gila.htm

Manzanita Project – California Academy of Sciences
http://dlp.CS.Berkeley.EDU/cgi/img_query?where-taxon=Heloderma+suspectum

Gila Monster
http://www.scenicdrive.org/cgmonster.htm

Inland Taipan Oxyuranus microlepidotus
Inland Taipan
http://users.esc.net.au/~whitters/page4.html

Taipan Antivenom

http://www.toxinology.com/generic_static_files/cslavh_antivenom_taipan.html

Mangrove Snake Boiga dendrophia
Oakland Zoo – Mangrove Snake
http://www.oaklandzoo.org/atoz/azmnsnke.html

Mangrove Snake – Utah’s Hogle Zoo
http://hoglezoo.org/animals/view.php?id=200

Northern Pacific Rattlesnake Crotalus viridis oreganus

Images – Manzanita Project (California Academy of Sciences)
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?special=browse&where-lifeform=Reptile&where-taxon=Crotalus+viridis+oreganus

Avoiding Wildlife Problems – Rattlesnakes (UC Davis)
http://atasteofeldorado.com/wildlife/rattlesnakes.html

Rhinoceros Viper Bitis nasicornis
Reptiles of the Impenetrable Forest – Bob Drewes (California Academy of Sciences)
http://www.calacademy.org/research/herpetology/frogs/frogsimp/reptiles/e30.htm

WhoZoo – Ft. Worth Zoo
http://www.whozoo.org/Anlife99/jasonlip/rhinoviperindex.htm

Animal Diversity Web – University of Michigan
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/bitis/b._nasicornis

Scarlet Kingsnake Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoides

Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoides
http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/Lt_elapsoides.html

Scarlet Kingsnake
http://www.uga.edu/~srel/scarlet_kingsnake.htm

Spitting Cobras
MSNBC – Dispatches from Myanmar
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/explorer/exp042800.html

Malayan Cobra – Utah’s Hogle Zoo
http://www.hoglezoo.org/animals/view.php?id=199

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Additional information about Venomous Creatures can be found in the Venomous Creatures Bibliography.

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