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pit_viper
📅 Updated:2026-08-30
🕒 Created:2020-02-12
🆔 ID:29211
Description
[color=species]Pit vipers[/color] are venomous snakes in the subfamily [color=species]Crotalinae[/color] in the family Viperidae. They are named as such for the heat-sensing pit organ located between the eye and the nostril on both sides of the head.
Species
- Agkistrodon — American ground pit viper
- Agkistrodon contortrix — American copperhead
- Agkistrodon piscivorus — cottonmouth
- Atropoides
- — Picado's jumping pit viper
- Bothriechis — palm-pit viper
- Bothriechis schlegelii — eyelash viper
- Bothrocophias — toadheaded pit viper
- Bothrops — lancehead
- Calloselasma
- Calloselasma rhodostoma — Malayan ground pit viper
- Cerrophidion — Montane pit viper
- Craspedocephalus
- Crotalus — rattlesnake
- Deinagkistrodon
- Deinagkistrodon acutus — sharp-nosed viper
- Garthius
- Garthius chaseni — Chasen's mountain pit viper
- Gloydius — Asian ground pit viper
- Gloydius blomhoffii — Japanese mamushi
- Gloydius halys — Siberian pit viper
- Hypnale — hump-nosed pit viper
- Lachesis — bushmaster
- Metlapilcoatlus — jumping pit viper
- Mixcoatlus — Mexican pit viper
- Ophryacus — Mexican horned pit viper
- Ovophis — mountain pit viper
- Porthidium — hognose pit viper
- Protobothrops
- Sistrurus
- Trimeresurus
- Tropidolaemus
External links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_viper
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crotaline_species_and_subspecies
