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The Crotalinae, commonly known as pit vipers, [2] [3] or pit adders, are a subfamily of vipers found in Asia and the Americas. Like all other vipers, they are venomous . They are distinguished by the presence of a heat-sensing pit organ located between the eye and the nostril on both sides of the head.
Agkistrodon is a genus of pit vipers commonly known as American moccasins. [3] [4] The genus is endemic to North America, ranging from the Southern United States to northern Costa Rica. [2] Eight species are currently recognized, [5] [6] all of them monotypic and closely related. [7] Common names include: cottonmouths, copperheads, and cantils. [8]
Gloydius blomhoffii, commonly known as the mamushi, [3] Japanese moccasin, Japanese pit viper, Qichun snake, Salmusa or Japanese mamushi, [4] is a pit viper species found in Japan. It was once considered to have 4 subspecies, but it is now considered monotypic.
Timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus This is a list of all sure genera, species and subspecies of the subfamily Crotalinae, [1] otherwise referred to as crotalines, pit vipers, or pitvipers, and including rattlesnakes Crotalus and Sistrurus.
Agkistrodon piscivorus is a species of venomous snake, a pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. It is one of the world's few semiaquatic vipers (along with the Florida cottonmouth), and is native to the Southeastern United States. [5] As an adult, it is large and capable of delivering a painful and potentially fatal bite.
Common names for D. acutus include sharp-nosed viper, snorkel viper, hundred pacer, [8] Chinese moccasin, [9] Chinese copperhead, [10] five-pacer, hundred-pace snake, long-nosed pit viper, sharp-nosed pit viper, [11] hundred-pace pit viper. [12] The snake has been an object of veneration by indigenous Taiwanese peoples.
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Considered a small viper, growing to 59 cm, the Alashan pitviper is distinguished from similar species by its specific scale counts as well as its banded pattern including 29-43 dark bands. [ 3 ] Habitat