REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS OF THE WORLD - VIPERS

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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

Gaboon Viper 

Bitis gabonica

Sub-Saharan Africa

Eyelash Viper

Bothriechis schlegelii

Columbia

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

Saw Scaled Viper

Echis carinatus

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

Bamboo Viper

Trimeresurus albolabris

Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, South China, Indonesia

Green Tree Viper

Trimeresurus gramineus

China, Taiwan
Nepal, India, Myanmar, Vietnam

Common European Adder
or Common Viper

Vipera berus

Northwestern Europe 
(Great Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, 
Scandinavia, Germany, France) across southern Europe (Italy, Serbia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, 
Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Bulgaria,
and northern Greece) and eastern Europe to north of
the Arctic Circle, and Russia to the Pacific Ocean,
 Sakhalin Island, North Korea, northern Mongolia and northern China

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.

Uracoan Rattlesnake

Crotalus vegrandis
(was Crotalus durissus vegrandis)

Venezuela

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

Flat-nosed Pit Viper

Trimeresurus puniceus

Southeast Asia

Wagler's Pit Viper

Tropidolaemus wagleri

Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam?


LINKS OF INTEREST

REPTILES OF THE WORLD

Rattlesnake Roundup

The Australian Reptile Park

OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST


AUSTRALIAN HERPETOLOGY WEBSITE

REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA

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