- venom.
Three subfamilies are
currently recognized. They are also
known as
viperids. The name "viper" is
derived from the
Latin word vipera, -ae, also meaning...
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Mojave rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus), a
viperid, is
primarily neurotoxic. Both
elapids and
viperids may
carry numerous other types of toxins. Postsynaptic...
- in
tropical Central and West Africa. Its
typical definitive hosts are
viperid snakes (such as
Bitis gabonica,
Bitis nasicornis, and
Cerastes cerastes)...
- 2008-10-09. Lillywhite,
Harvey B. (November 1993). "Orthostatic
Intolerance of
Viperid Snakes".
Physiological Zoology. 66 (6): 1000–1014. doi:10.1086/physzool...
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delivered through fangs.: 243 The
fangs of 'advanced'
venomous snakes like
viperids and
elapids are hollow,
allowing venom to be
injected more effectively...
- adders,
tiger snakes, mambas, king cobras,
cobras and more.
Viperidae (
viperids) True vipers,
including the Russell's viper, saw-scaled vipers, puff adders...
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venom has the
highest intramuscular LD50 value—8.6 mg/kg—of five
different viperid venoms tested (B. arietans, B. gabonica, B. nasicornis,
Daboia russelii...
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which they want to mate
includes topping, a
behavior exhibited by most
viperids, in
which one male
twists around the
vertically elevated fore body of his...
- viper?
Biological attributes of
basal viperid snakes (genus
Causus Wagler, 1830):
BIOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTES OF
BASAL VIPERID SNAKES".
Biological Journal of the...
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grows to a
maximum of 28 cm (11 in) and is
perhaps the world's
smallest viperid, to the very
large B. gabonica,
which can
attain a
length over 2 m (6.6 ft)...
