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Image Species [4] Taxon author [4] Subsp.* [4] Common name [1] Geographic range [3] M. borealis [5] Tepos-Ramírez et al., 2021 0 Boreal jumping pit viper Mexico on the Sierra Madre Oriental, South of San Luis Potosi to Hidalgo and North of Veracruz. M. indomitus: Smith & Ferrari-Castro, 2008 0 Botaderos jumping pit viper
Although a few species of crotalines are highly active by day, such as Trimeresurus trigonocephalus, a bright green pit viper endemic to Sri Lanka, most are nocturnal, preferring to avoid high daytime temperatures and to hunt when their favored prey are also active. The snakes' heat-sensitive pits are also thought to aid in locating cooler ...
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.
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]
Image Species Common name Geographic range Bothrocophias andianus (Amaral, 1923) Bolivia and Peru: Bothrocophias campbelli (Freire-Lascano, 1991) Campbell's toadheaded viper the Ecuadorian toadheaded pitviper víbora boca de sapo Ecuador Bothrocophias colombianus (Rendahl & Vestergren, 1940) Colombian toad-headed pitviper Columbia Bothrocophias ...
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.
The Central American eyelash-pitviper (Bothriechis nigroadspersus) (from Latin, nigrum, meaning "black", and adspersus meaning "sprinkled") is a species of pit viper. [ 1 ] Although once listed as a synonym of Bothriechis schlegelii , it was revalidated in a 2024 revision of the latter species.
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.