- 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...
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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...
- in
tropical Central and West Africa. Its
typical definitive hosts are
viperid snakes (such as
Bitis gabonica,
Bitis nasicornis, and
Cerastes cerastes)...
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species within its range, it may be
encountered by humans.
Unlike other viperids, it
often "freezes"
instead of
slithering away and fleeing, due to its...
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medical classification as venom.
Compared to
hollowed fangs present in
viperid and
elapid snakes, the
teeth of the
hognose are
smooth and
strong without...
- Currently, 23
genera and 155
species are recognized:
These are also the only
viperids found in the Americas. The
groups of
snakes represented here
include rattlesnakes...
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Laophis (From
Ancient Gr****,
stone snake) is a
genus of
viperid snake currently containing one
known species that
lived during the
Pliocene in Northern...
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number of occasions, and is very
similar in form to that seen in many
other viperid species. An
important factor in ****ual selection, it
allows for the establishment...
- viper?
Biological attributes of
basal viperid snakes (genus
Causus Wagler, 1830):
BIOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTES OF
BASAL VIPERID SNAKES".
Biological Journal of the...
