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Pit viper India to Thailand to northern Malaysia and Indonesia: Crotalus T: Linnaeus, 1758: 51 Rattlesnakes The Americas, from southern Canada to northern Argentina Deinagkistrodon: Gloyd, 1979 1 Hundred-pace pit viper Southeast Asia Garthius: Malhotra & Thorpe, 2004 1 Mount Kinabalu pit viper, Chasen's mountain pit viper Borneo: Gloydius: Hoge ...
Crotalus viridis (Common names: prairie rattlesnake, [3] [4] Great Plains rattlesnake, [5]) is a venomous pit viper species native to the western United States, southwestern Canada, and northern Mexico.
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.
The eastern massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus) is a rattlesnake species found in central and eastern North America from southern Ontario in Canada and throughout the Midwestern and Eastern United States. Like all rattlesnakes, it is a pit viper and is venomous; it is the only species of venomous snake in Ontario. [4]
The eastern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), [3] also known simply as the copperhead, is a species of venomous snake, a pit viper, endemic to eastern North America; it is a member of the subfamily Crotalinae in the family Viperidae.
Crotalus oreganus, commonly known as the Western rattlesnake or northern Pacific rattlesnake, [4] [5] is a venomous pit viper species found in western North America from the Baja California Peninsula to the southern interior of British Columbia.
Initially, these snakes were misidentified as known species of pit viper. A DNA analysis of the “cryptic” snakes later revealed that the animals belonged to a “distinct species,” the study ...
Agkistrodon is a genus of pit vipers commonly known as American moccasins. [2] [3] The genus is endemic to North America, ranging from the Southern United States to northern Costa Rica. [1] Eight species are currently recognized, [4] [5] all of them monotypic and closely related. [6] Common names include: cottonmouths, copperheads, and cantils. [7]