World’s Most Venomous Snakes
In order of lethal potency
    
    * Not Australian snakes

1. Small-scaled snake
2. Brown snake
3. Taipan
4. Tiger snake
5. Reevesby Island tiger snake
6. Beaked sea snake
7. Western Australian tiger snake
8. Chappell Island tiger snake
9. Death adder
10. Gwardar
11. Australian copperhead
12. Indian Cobra*
13. Dugite
14. Papuan blacksnake
15. Yellow-banded snake
16. Rough-scaled snake
17. King Cobra*
18. Blue-bellied black snake
19. Collet’s snake
20. King brown snake
21. Red-bellied black snake
22. Small-eyed snake
23. Eastern diamond-back rattlesnake*

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