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A Selection of
VIPERS OF THE WORLD

Saw Scaled Viper

COMMON NAME

SCIENTIFIC NAME

DISTRIBUTION

Florida Cottonmouth

Agkistrodon conanti

USA, southern Georgia and most of Florida, including some islands off the coast

Eastern Copperhead

Agkistrodon contortrix (includes snakes that were called A. c. contortrix and A. c. mokasen)

USA:- Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts
Delaware.

Western Copperhead
or Broad-banded Copperhead

Agkistrodon laticinctus
(includes snakes that were called A. c. laticinctus, A. c. pictigaster and A. c. contortrix)

USA:- Texas, Oklahoma.
Mexico:- Chihuahua

Gaboon Viper 

Bitis gabonica

Sub-Saharan Africa

Eyelash Viper

Bothriechis schlegelii

Columbia

Flat-nosed Pit Viper

Craspedocephalus (was Trimeresurus) puniceus

Southeast Asia

Sri Lankan Green Pit Viper or
Ceylon Pit Viper

Craspedocephalus trigonocephalus

Sri Lanka

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

Crotalus adamanteus

southeastern USA, from Florida (Keys and peninsula) north to coastal North Carolina, West Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Western Diamond-back Rattlesnake

Crotalus atrox

USA & Mexico

South American Rattlesnake

Crotalus durissus

South America and some islands in the Caribbean,
including Morro de la Iguana, Tamarindo and Aruba

Timber Rattlesnake

Crotalus horridus

Eastern regions of North America

Aruba Island Rattlesnake

Crotalus unicolor

The Caribbean island of Aruba

Uracoan Rattlesnake

Crotalus vegrandis
(was Crotalus durissus vegrandis)

Venezuela

Russells Viper

Daboia russelii

Pakistan, India , Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan

Sri Lankan Hump-nosed Viper

Hypnale nepa

Sri Lanka

Saw Scaled Viper

Echis carinatus

Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan,
Iran, Sri Lanka, Southern Afghanistan, Pakistan, India,
Bangladesh, Iran, Oman and United Arab Emirates

Green Tree Viper

Trimeresurus gramineus

China, Taiwan
Nepal, India, Myanmar, Vietnam

Sunda White-lipped Pit Viper

Trimeresurus insularis

Indonesia (Adonara, Alor, Bali, Flores, Komodo, Lombok, Padar, Rinca, Romang, Roti, Sumba, Sumbawa, Timor, Wetar, Java), Timor-Leste

Wagler's Pit Viper

Tropidolaemus wagleri

Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam?

Asp Viper

Vipera aspis

NE Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy,
NW Yugoslavia: Slovenia


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