How many species of poisonous animals are known to exist?

nirmalya_b

INVERTEBRATES • Caterpillar • Filaria > MARINE ANIMALS • Cone shell • Blue bottle • Blue-ringed octopus • Box jellyfish • Lion-fish • Sea scorpion • Stingray • Stonefish • Others > AMPHIBIANS • Poison dart frogs • Salamander > REPTILES • Snakes • Coral snake • Gila monster • Rattlesnake • Sea snake > ARACHNIDS • Black widow • Br. recluse spider • Latrodectus • Scorpion • Tarantula • Sydney funnel web > INSECTS • Ants • Beetle-bombardier • Honeybee • Scolopendra • Spanish fly • Termites • Wasp > MAMMALS • Platypus • Soricidae http://library.thinkquest.org/C007974/2animal.htm Jun 04 09, 1:19 PM

kthnos

There exists over 165 different types of arrow-poison frogs About 450 of the 3000 species of venomous snakes are considered poisonous to humans. Almost all of the 20,000 species of spiders are venomous. Although there are over 1050 different species of scorpions world-wide, relatively few of them are poisonous to man. www.vency.com/poisonousanimals.html About 50species of wasps are troublesome to humans http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/fasulo/vector/chap07.pdf. Jun 04 09, 1:19 PM

star_gazer

And please don't forget poisonous toads. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1129_041129_cane_toads.html Jun 04 09, 10:57 PM