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This is a list of all genera, species and subspecies of the subfamily Viperinae, otherwise referred to as viperines, true vipers, pitless vipers or Old World vipers.It follows the taxonomy of McDiarmid et al. (1999) [1] and ITIS.
The humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) is a species of black seadevil in the family of Melanocetidae, which means "black whale" in Greek. [1] The species is named after James Yate Johnson, the English naturalist who discovered the first specimen in Madeira in 1863. [2] The common names include anglerfish, viperfish and fangtoothfish ...
It is an extremely venomous and dangerous snake native to the Middle East. Its body is usually dark black in color and it has small eyes with round pupils. The head and the tail are short and pointy, which makes it harder even for veterans to distinguish head from tail. Its approximate size is 60–80 cm.
Agkistrodon piscivorus in the CalPhotos photo database, University of California, Berkeley; Cottonmouth Fact Sheet Archived 2005-10-26 at the Wayback Machine at Smithsonian National Zoological Park. Accessed 7 December 2007. Cottonmouth snake – bites, identification, diet and habitat. Archived 2011-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
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Viperfish have previously been recorded in the Italian waters off the western Mediterranean Basin, the Adriatic Sea, the Greek waters of the Aegean Sea, and in the Turkish waters of the Levant Sea. Viperfish have rarely been seen off the Algerian coast by Dieuzeide. They have been reported to occur off the northern Tunisian coast. [15] m
McMahon's viper The desert region of Balochistan near the Iran-Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Macrovipera: Reuss, 1927 2 Large Palearctic vipers Semideserts and steppes of Northern Africa, the Near and Middle East, and Milos in the Aegean Sea. Montatheris: Broadley, 1996 1 Kenya mountain viper
Vipera kaznakovi, also known as the Caucasus viper, Kaznakow's viper, [2] Kaznakov's viper, [3] and by other common names, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Viperinae of the family Viperidae. The species is native to Turkey, Georgia, and Russia. [1] There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid. [4]