Fer-de-Lance Small 320×289 Medium 640×578 Large 1024×924 Download Tiff Original 2400×2166 | (3.2 MB) Description "The Viperine Snakes have a long, perforated, erectile fang on the maxillary bone, which is extremely short and bears no teeth." Keywords poisonous snake Galleries Snakes and Lizards Source: Hazlitt Alva Cuppy PH.D., Editor Beauties and Wonders of Land and Sea (Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1895)