Pinchers

Pinchers (and their greater cousins bradles and snatchs) are a variety of venomous beasts which appeared in Ultima III during Exodus' incursions into Sosaria.

Description
These two legged creatures attacked their prey with bites from their envenomed insectoid maws, delivering a deadly poison into the veins of their opponents. While these bizarre monsters inflicted very little immediate damage with their attacks, their toxic spittle could soon prove the end of even the most stalwart of adventurers, should they be far from a healer and without a companion capable of employing the Alcort spell.

Appearing only briefly during the last years of the Age of Darkness, these beasts eventually faded from the Sosarian landscape in the years following the Stranger's victory on the Isle of Fire, and were absent from the realm by the time of Ultima IV.

Ultima III for NES
In the NES port, pinchers are not included as an enemy. Snatchs are described as dungeon-dwellers, while bradles are found only above ground.