pit vipers
pit adders
crotalinae latin

If you do become intoxicated, stay away from pit vipers.

She'd avoided touching the bags as if they were pit vipers.

The air would have been transparent to pit vipers.

Is feeding young girls to pit vipers how you get your jollies?

Both pythons and pit vipers also have heat sensors in the mouth.

How about other heat sensing animals like pit vipers?

People cannot see wavelengths that long so you do not glow in the dark (except to pit vipers).

Many young Pit vipers have brightly coloured tails which is different to the rest of their body.

Pit vipers usually are covered with splotches, which is of no aid in retreat.

It is believed that all oviparous Pit vipers guard their eggs.

"This is to instill in everybody the awareness that pit vipers are not toys," he said.

In the past, the pit vipers were usually classed as a separate family: the Crotalidae.

Pit vipers are mainly viviparous, meaning the females give live birth.

He recognized rattlesnakes, water moccasins, and what were probably exotic pit vipers.

Lachesis is a genus of pit vipers sometimes called bushmasters.

Central America is home to 23 species of pit vipers, and they inflict the vast majority of reported bites.

Like most other American pit vipers, most of the toxin released is proteolytic.

The groups of snakes represented here include rattlesnakes, lanceheads and Asian pit vipers.

These pit vipers were the first example of wild vertebrates opting for asexual reproduction.

Ophryacus is a genus of venomous pit vipers endemic to Mexico.

Pythons and Malayan pit vipers are also present.

There are several different types of reptile native to the country, ranging from pit vipers to monitor lizards.

"Pit vipers can be very bulky or very slender, short or long.

"Snakes were everywhere - bushmasters, pit vipers and what locals call candongas.

These pit vipers have long, hollow fangs.

The Crotalinae, commonly known as pit vipers, crotaline snakes, or pit adders, are a subfamily of venomous vipers found in Asia and the Americas.

They are distinguished by their lack of the heat-sensing pit organs that characterize their sister group, the Crotalinae.

In vipers, the pit organ is seen only in the subfamily Crotalinae: the pitvipers.

Multigene analyses of pitviper (Viperidae: Crotalinae) phylogeny and biogeography.

Bothrocophias is a genus of venomous snakes in the Crotalinae subfamily of the Viperidae family.

Preliminary account on Neotropical Crotalinae (Serpentes: Viperidae).

New mountain species of Trimeresurus (Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae) of the "green" pit vipers group from the Himalayas.

Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous snakes of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae ("pit vipers").

Although the heat-sensing pits that characterize the Crotalinae are clearly lacking in the viperines, a supernasal sac with sensory function has been described in a number of species.

The Crotalinae, also known as the "Pit vipers" or "Crotaline snakes", are a subfamily of venomous vipers found in Asia and the Americas.

Generic recognition for a neglected lineage of South American Pitvipers (Squamata: Crotalinae) with the description of a new species from the Colombian Chocóo.

In contrast to the pitvipers of the subfamily Crotalinae, Bitis species appear to lack heat-sensitive organs and showed no differences in their behavior in laboratory tests towards warm and cool objects that mimicked prey.

Although 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 to thermal cues, further supporting the notion that they too possess a heat-sensitive organ.