# Ten Deadliest Snakes with Nigel Marven

Ten Deadliest Snakes with Nigel Marven is a twelve-part wildlife documentary series from 2013 to 2017. It began airing on Eden Channel in 2013. Seasons 1 and 2 were also broadcast on Animal Planet Europe, while season 3 was premiered on Nat Geo Wild UK and later screened on Nat Geo Wild Europe & Africa in 2017. It is presented by Nigel Marven, who travels around the world and in each hour-long episode he counts down his list of ten deadliest snakes in each different country or continent. The series is produced by Image Impact.

## Episodes

Between 2013 and 2017, 3 seasons were produced, each containing 4 episodes, making up 12 episodes in total.

### Costa Rica

Animals featured:
* 10. yellow-bellied sea snake
* 9. jumping pit viper
* 8. side-striped palm pit viper
* 7. hognose pit viper
* 6. eyelash pit viper
* 5. Central American coral snake
* 4. Neotropical rattlesnake
* 3. Picado's pit viper
* 2. terciopelo
* 1. black-headed bushmaster
The programme also includes the Collared aracari, Black-cheeked woodpecker, White-necked jacobin, Crowned woodnymph, Green-breasted mango, Snowcap, Northern caiman lizard, Plumed basilisk, Tent-making bat, bird snake, Granular poison frog, Smooth helmeted iguana, Leafcutter ant, milk snake, American crocodile

### United States

Animals featured:
* 10. rock rattlesnake
* 9. sidewinder
* 8. copperhead
* 7. timber rattlesnake
* 6. tiger rattlesnake
* 5. cottonmouth
* 4. Eastern coral snake
* 3. Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
* 2. Western diamondback rattlesnake
* 1. Mojave rattlesnake
The programme also includes the Sonoran mountain kingsnake, Pantherophis obsoletus, Ring-necked snake, Northern short-tailed shrew, Northern slimy salamander, Texas horned lizard, Florida banded water snake, Scarlet kingsnake, Gopher tortoise, Arizona black rattlesnake, Gila monster, Western hognose snake, Arizona blond tarantula.

### South Africa

Animals featured:
* 10. Cape coral snake
* 9. boomslang
* 8. rinkhals
* 7. Eastern green mamba
* 6. Gaboon viper
* 5. forest cobra
* 4. Mozambique spitting cobra
* 3. puff adder
* 2. Cape cobra
* 1. black mamba
The programme also includes the Angonoka tortoise, Cape sugarbird, Mole snake, Southern right whale, Raucous toad, Cape weaver, Meerkat, Sociable weaver, Cape Vulture.

### China

Animals featured:
* 10. short-tailed mamushi
* 9. white-lipped pit viper
* 8. black-banded sea krait
* 7. Taiwanese habu
* 6. Russell's viper
* 5. Chinese cobra and monocled cobra
* 4. many-banded krait
* 3. sharp-nosed viper
* 2. Mangshan pit viper
* 1. king cobra
The programme also includes the king ratsnake, Elaphe taeniura, Mandarin rat snake, tiger keelback, Ptyas Dhumnades, Formosan rock macaque, Swinhoe's Pheasant, ophisaurus hainanensis, and coconut crab.

### Malaysia

Animals featured:
* 10. temple pit viper
* 9. reticulated python
* 8. red-headed krait
* 7. Siamese peninsula pit viper
* 6. mountain pit viper
* 5. beaked sea snake
* 4. Malayan pit viper
* 3. mangrove pit viper
* 2. King cobra
* 1. Sumatran spitting cobra and monocled cobra
The programme also includes the Elephant trunk snake, Great hornbill, Heteropoda davidbowie, Asian water monitor

### Australia

Animals featured:
* 10. Red-bellied black snake
* 9. Inland taipan
* 8. Common death adder
* 7. Broad-headed snake
* 6. Australian copperhead
* 5. Tiger snake
* 4. Rough-scaled snake
* 3. Mulga snake
* 2. Coastal taipan
* 1. Eastern brown snake
Other Animals Tasmanian Devil, Saltwater crocodile, freshwater snake, Lesueur's velvet gecko, Southern cassowary, Frilled lizard

### India

Animals featured:
* 10. Laticauda colubrina
* 9. Trimeresurus andersonii
* 8. Trimeresurus gramineus
* 7. Trimeresurus malabaricus
* 6. Hypnale hypnale
* 5. Ophiophagus hannah
* 4. Naja naja
* 3. Echis carinatus
* 2. Bungarus caeruleus
* 1. Daboia russeli
The programme also includes the Amblypygi, Python molurus, Cyrtodactylus deccanensis, Rat snake, short-crested bay island forest lizard, Andaman bronzeback snake

### Europe

Animals featured:
* 10. Telescopus fallax
* 9. Malpolon monspessulanus
* 8. Vipera ursinii
* 7. Vipera seoanei
* 6. Vipera latastei
* 5. Vipera berus
* 4. Vipera aspis
* 3. Macrovipera schweizeri
* 2. Vipera ammodytes
* 1. Montivipera xanthina
The programme also includes the Timon lepidus, Elaphe quatuorlineata, Blanus cinereus, Alytes, Ciconia ciconia, Sheltopusik, Green whip snake, Zamenis longissimus, Common midwife toad

### Philippines

Animals featured:
* 10. Mangrove Snake
* 9. Reticulated Python
* 8. Palawan Pit Viper
* 7. Sea krait
* 6. Mindanao Pit Viper
* 5. King Cobra
* 4. Philippine Coral Snake
* 3. Philippine Pit Viper
* 2. Samar cobra
* 1. Philippine cobra

### Brazil

Animals featured:
* 10. Painted Coral Snake
* 9. Golden Lancehead
* 8. Urutu
* 7. Pampas Lancehead
* 6. South American coral snake
* 5. Amazonian Palm Viper
* 4. Camboia
* 3. Cascabel
* 2. Jararacussu
* 1. Jararaca

### Mexico

Animals featured:
* 10. Tamaulipan Rock Rattlesnake
* 9. Mexican Dusky Rattlesnake
* 8. Texas Coral Snake
* 7. Santa Catalina Rattlesnake
* 6. Mitchell's Rattlesnake
* 5. Baja California Rattlesnake
* 4. Red Diamondback Rattlesnake
* 3. Taylor's Cantil
* 2. Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
* 1. Terciopelo

### Arabia

Animals featured:
* 10. Arabian cat snake
* 9. Arabian False Cobra
* 8. Persian Horned Viper
* 7. Puff adder
* 6. Arabian Cobra
* 5. Desert Blacksnake
* 4. Persian Gulf Sea Snake
* 3. Arabian Horned Viper
* 2. Sind Saw-scaled Viper
* 1. Oman Carpet Viper