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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 venomous species of viper native to the deserts of Northern...
- related to Crotalus cerastes. Crotalus cerastes at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 3 August 2007. Crotalus cerastes cerastes at California Reptiles...
- 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...
- viper Cerastes vipera. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 66(1-2), 94-100. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cerastes vipera. Cerastes vipera...
- 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...
- "Systematics and zoogeography of Cerastes (Ophidia: Viperidae) in the Levant: 1. Distinguishing Arabian from AfricanCerastes cerastes” ". The Snake 23: 90-100...
- 2004). "Life-threatening envenoming by the Saharan horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) causing micro-angiopathic haemolysis, coagulopathy and acute renal...
- A. Smith, 1838 Cerastes ocellatus — A. Smith, 1838 Vipera caudalis A. Smith, 1839 Vipera (Cerastes) caudalis — A. Smith, 1839 Cerastes caudalis — Gray...
- 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...
- 1831 Cerastes cornuta — Gray, 1842 Vipera (Echidna) atropoides A. Smith, 1846 Vipera atropoides — A. Smith, 1846 Clotho cornuta — Gray, 1849 Cerastes lophophrys...