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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.
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.
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.
Protobothrops mangshanensis, commonly known as the Mangshan pit viper, [1] Mt. Mang pit viper, or Mang Mountain pit viper, [4] [5] [6] is a pit viper species endemic to Hunan and Guangdong provinces in China. [1] [3] No subspecies are currently recognized.
Bothriechis is a genus of pit vipers, commonly called palm vipers [2] or palm-pit vipers [3] found predominantly in Mexico and Central America, although the most common species, B. schlegelii, ranges as far south as Colombia and Peru. [4] All members are relatively slender and arboreal.
Another photo shows an Ayeyarwady pit viper with a blotchy pattern, electric green scales interspersed with forest green scales. It has a white line running along its side and a yellow belly.
The Omkoi lance-headed pit viper is characterized by its relatively large body size, with males reaching up to 110 cm and females up to 132 cm in length. The body pattern consists of a brown or grayish background, overlaid with dark reddish-brown transverse blotches edged in black, which may fuse to form a median zigzag line on the dorsum.