Berlin, Adele; Brettler, Marc Zvi; and Jewish Publication Society. (2014).The Jewish Study Bible Jewish Publication Society Tanakh translation. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 779. ISBN9780199978465.
McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN1-893777-01-4 (volume).
J. N. Barnes, Serpents & Sand: The Snakes of Dhofar, – select "subjects" then "reptiles" and then "Serpents and sand" article. Entry for "carpet viper."
"Carpet viper [saw-scale viper] (Echis carinatus, Echis coloratus, Echis pyramidum) – 76cm. A very dangerous snake possessing one of the most toxic venoms of all land snakes. Found in rocky places or areas with vegetation around wadis and hillsides, sometimes in large numbers. Although rarely seen, carpet vipers can be aggressive and will strike after loudly rasping their scales together as a warning." apud Millett, Pratt 2000.
Stanley S. Flower, "Notes on recent reptiles and amphibians of Egypt," Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1933. Quote: "In modern times with the miracle of antivenin treatments and hospitalization in countries such as Israel, documented fatalities from Echis coloratus bites are rare. Most snakebite fatalities today occur in remote areas and the saw-scale viper is blamed for many thousands of deaths annually especially in Africa. The most relevant example to this study in the barren Arava valley area of the "fiery serpents" of a documented fatal echis coloratus bite is this account. Three British soldiers were bitten by the same echis coloratus snake in the Arava valley in 1918. All three soldiers died." apud Millett, Pratt 2000.
Alan E. Leviton, Steven C. Anderson, Kraig Adler, and Sherman A. Minton, Handbook to Middle East Amphibians and Reptiles, 1992, pp. 110–114. Quote: "The snakes in the area are the Israeli saw-scale viper, Echis coloratus, desert horned viper and close relatives, Cerastes cerastes, Cerastes vipera, and Pseudocerastes persicus fieldi, and the desert black snake or black desert cobra, Walterinnesia aegyptia." apud Millett, Pratt 2000.