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Pit Viper is an American company based in South Salt Lake, Utah. The company designs, develops and manufactures sports performance equipment and lifestyle pieces including sunglasses , safety glasses, eyeglasses , sports visors, ski/snowboard goggles utilizing a 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s aesthetic combined with an irreverent, absurdist ...
Cerrophidion is a genus of pit vipers which are endemic to southern Mexico, Central America, and western Panama. [1] The generic name, Cerrophidion, is derived from the Spanish word cerro, which means "mountain", and the Greek word ophidion, which means "small snake". [2] Five species are recognized as being valid, but no subspecies are. [3]
The researchers also found two specimens of the new species in the Natural History Museum of Denmark which had been collected by a Danish naturalist, Bernt Wilhelm Westermann, between 1811 and 1816 [6] but were wrongly labeled as white-lipped pit vipers. [7] This new species of green pit viper, Trimeresurus salazar, was named after Salazar ...
Bothriechis schlegelii, known commonly as the highland eyelash-pitviper or Schlegel's eyelash-pitviper, [2] is a species of pit viper in the family Viperidae, native to Colombia. Somewhat small, arboreal snakes, B. schlegelii is perhaps best known for the namesake superciliary (" eyelash ") scales above its eyes , and for having distinctly ...
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.
Craspedocephalus malabaricus, (formerly Trimeresurus malabaricus) commonly known as Malabar pit viper, Malabar rock pit viper, [3] or rock viper, [4] is a venomous pit viper species endemic to the high-moderate elevations of Western Ghats of southwestern India.
Bothriechis nigroviridis is a pit viper species found in the mountains of Costa Rica and Panama. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] No subspecies are currently recognized. [ 3 ] The specific name is derived from the Latin niger (black) and viridis (green) in reference to its distinctive color pattern.
Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus is a venomous pit viper species native to India, Bangladesh and Southeast Asia. Common names include: mangrove pit viper, [4] mangrove viper, [5] and shore pit viper. [6]