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Common names include Asian palm pit vipers, [3] Asian lanceheads, and green pit vipers. [4] Description. Most species in the genus Trimeresurus are relatively small, ...
Trimeresurus stejnegeri is a species of venomous pit viper endemic to Asia.Two subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here. [3]Common names for this pit viper include Stejneger's pit viper, Chinese pit viper, Chinese green tree viper, [4] bamboo viper, Chinese bamboo pitviper, 69 bamboo viper, and Chinese tree viper. [5]
Gloydius cognatus, or the Alashan pitviper, is a species of Asian moccasin from North West China and Mongolia. As with all pit vipers it is venomous, and it is considered the most toxic species of Gloydius in China. [1] [2]
The groups of snakes represented here include rattlesnakes, lanceheads, and Asian pit vipers. The type genus for this subfamily is Crotalus , of which the type species is the timber rattlesnake , C. horridus .
Central Asian pit viper Central Asia from Kyrgyzstan, eastern Kazakhstan and Xinjiang (in China) to Mongolia and southern Siberia east to the western slopes of the Greater Khingan Mountain Range and the Torey Lakes region near the common border of China, Mongolia and Russia. G. i. stejnegeri (Rendahl, 1933) Gobi pit viper
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.
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 ...
T. macrops belongs to the genus Trimeresurus, a group of Asian vipers with primarily hemotoxic venom — a type of venom that can destroy blood cells, disrupt blood clotting, and damage organ function. A bite from this viper's better-studied cousin, the white-lipped pit viper, is said to cause effects ranging from mild envenomation to death. [8]