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Definition of Cerastes

Cerastes
Cerastes Ce*ras"tes, n. [L., a horned serpent, fr. Gr. ? horned, fr. ? horn.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

Meaning of Cerastes from wikipedia

- Cerastes cerastes, commonly known as the Saharan horned viper or the desert horned viper, is a species of viper native to the deserts of Northern Africa...
- approaches the cerastes, the cerastes promptly kills it. The legend is most likely derived from the habits of the horned viper, whose genus, Cerastes, is named...
- related to Crotalus cerastes. Crotalus cerastes at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 3 August 2007. Crotalus cerastes cerastes at California Reptiles...
- genus include horned vipers, North African desert vipers, and cerastes vipers. Cerastes are small snakes, averaging less than 50 cm (20 in) in total length...
- study of the sand viper Cerastes vipera. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 66(1-2), 94-100. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cerastes vipera....
- 2004). "Life-threatening envenoming by the Saharan horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) causing micro-angiopathic haemolysis, coagulopathy and acute renal...
- "Systematics and zoogeography of Cerastes (Ophidia: Viperidae) in the Levant: 1. Distinguishing Arabian from AfricanCerastes cerastes” ". The Snake 23: 90–100...
- ISBN 0-8014-4141-2. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crotalus cerastes cercobombus. Crotalus cerastes at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 3 August...
- Styracosaurus (/stɪˌrækəˈsɔːrəs/ sti-RAK-ə-SOR-əs; meaning "spiked lizard" from the Ancient Gr**** styrax/στύραξ "spike at the butt-end of a spear-shaft"...
- The Colorado Desert sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes laterorepens) is a pitviper subspecies found in an area that centers on the Sonoran Colorado Desert in...