- 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)...
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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...
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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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protein family is
absent in the
viperid lineage,
suggesting that it was
recruited into
snake venom after the
viperid snakes branched off from the remaining...
- adders,
tiger snakes, mambas, king cobras,
cobras and more.
Viperidae (
viperids) True vipers,
including the Russell's viper, saw-scaled vipers, puff adders...
- 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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smallest species of the
genus Bitis and
possibly the world's
smallest viperid.
Bitis schneideri ranges from the
white coastal sand
dunes of Namibia,...
- effects,
hemoconcentration and hemorrhage.
Bites promote symptoms typical of
viperid envenomation, such as pain,
swelling and discoloration, all of
which may...
