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    Pit viper (redirect from Crotalinae)
    The Crotalinae, commonly known as pit vipers, or pit adders, are a subfamily of vipers found in Asia and the Americas. Like all other vipers, they are...
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    heat-sensing pit organs that characterize their sister group, the subfamily Crotalinae. Currently, 13 genera are recognized. Most are tropical and subtropical...
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    venomous snakes that form the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers). All rattlesnakes are vipers. Rattlesnakes are predators...
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    lancehead, is a species of extremely venomous pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is found exclusively on the island...
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    activator Viperidae, Crotalinae Heparinase Crotalinae α-Fibrinogenase Viperidae, Crotalinae β-Fibrinogenase Viperidae, Crotalinae α-β-Fibrinogenase Bitis...
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    (Didelphini) are immune to the venom of rattlesnakes and pit vipers (Crotalinae) and regularly prey upon these snakes. This adaptation seems to be unique...
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    rattlesnakes, massasaugas Sistrurus is a genus of pit vipers in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The genus is endemic to Canada, the United States...
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    the families of Boidae (boas), Pythonidae (pythons), and the subfamily Crotalinae (pit vipers). What is commonly called a pit organ allows these animals...
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    the Batanes pit viper, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to the Philippines. The...
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    Guangxi, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang) to Northern Vietnam Crotalinae Oppel, 1811 22 Pit vipers In the Old World from Eastern Europe eastward...
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  • of venomous snake belonging to the family Viperidae and the subfamily Crotalinae, the pit vipers. It was described in 2022 from the Chamba District of...
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    this genus does not have the heat-sensitive pit organs common to the Crotalinae, it is one of a number of viperines that are apparently able to react...
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    morphological analysis of Gloydius himalayanus (Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae), with the description of a new species". European Journal of Taxonomy...
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    Tropidolaemus wagleri (category Crotalinae)
    pit viper, is a species of venomous snake, a pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia. There...
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    on the functions and origin of the facial pit of pitvipers (Viperidae: Crotalinae)". Journal of Experimental Biology. 207 (Pt 24): 4231–4238. doi:10.1242/jeb...
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    hemipenes of four species of Trimeresurus (sensu stricto) (Serpentes: Crotalinae)". Amphibia-Reptilia 22 (1): 113-117. Schmidt KP (1925). "New Reptiles...
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    Azemiopinae – Fae's viper Subfamily Causinae – night adders Subfamily Crotalinae – pitvipers, rattlesnakes Subfamily Viperinae – true vipers Family Xenopeltidae...
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    express both subunits and have been designated "venom A" populations. The Crotalinae, commonly known as pit vipers, crotaline snakes (named for the Ancient...
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    Tropidolaemus (category Crotalinae)
    Tropidolaemus, the temple pit vipers, is a genus of pit vipers in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. Member species are native to southern India and...
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    Tropidolaemus laticinctus (category Crotalinae)
    laticinctus is a species of venomous snake in the pit viper subfamily, Crotalinae. Its common names are Sulawesi pit viper, broad-banded temple pitviper...
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  • as Picado's jumping pit viper, is a pit viper species in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to Costa Rica. There are...
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    strike with amazing speed. In contrast to the pitvipers of the subfamily Crotalinae, Bitis species appear to lack heat-sensitive organs and showed no differences...
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    is a list of all sure genera, species and subspecies of the subfamily Crotalinae, otherwise referred to as crotalines, pit vipers, or pitvipers, and including...
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    Bothrocophias is a genus of pit vipers in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae, known by the common name toadheaded pit vipers. The genus is...
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    (Gray 1842) on Sumatra Island, Indonesia (Reptilia, Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 80 (1/2): 225–232. David P, Vogel G, Dubois...
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    the pygmy rattlesnake, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Crotalinae (pit vipers) of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to the Southeastern...
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    This list of snakes of Florida includes all snakes in the U.S. state of Florida. Southern Black Racer Eastern Coachwhip Florida Brown Snake Florida redbelly...
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    http://www.biologyofthepitvipers.com/#!Hump-nosed-pit-viper-Viperidae-Crotalinae-Hypnale-Venom-envenomation-and-antivenom/c1oxy/BA768453-4A27-459F-9F68-28BF31206214...
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  • morphological variation in Trimeresurus popeiorum (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae), with the description of two new species". Zootaxa. 727 (1): 1–63. doi:10...
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  • Within the family Viperidae, the pit organ is seen only in the subfamily Crotalinae: the pitvipers. The organ is used extensively to detect and target endothermic...
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