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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 ...
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
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]
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.
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 Caucasian pit viper (Gloydius caucasicus) is found in Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Afghanistan. This species inhabits a variety of environments, including rocky areas and mountainous regions. [1] [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 ...
Cite this page; Get shortened URL; Download QR code; ... commonly known as Mexican jumping pit viper [2] or jumping viper, [3] is a pit viper species endemic to Mexico.