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    Pit viper (redirect from Crotalinae)
    The Crotalinae, commonly known as pit vipers, or pit adders, are a subfamily of vipers found in Asia and the Americas. Like all other vipers, they are...
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    lancehead, is a species of highly venomous pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is found exclusively on the island...
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    heat-sensing pit organs that characterize their sister group, the subfamily Crotalinae. Currently, 13 genera are recognized. Most are tropical and subtropical...
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    venomous snakes that form the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers). All rattlesnakes are vipers. Rattlesnakes are predators...
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    the families of Boidae (boas), Pythonidae (pythons), and the subfamily Crotalinae (pit vipers). What is commonly called a pit organ allows these animals...
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    activator Viperidae, Crotalinae Heparinase Crotalinae α-Fibrinogenase Viperidae, Crotalinae β-Fibrinogenase Viperidae, Crotalinae α-β-Fibrinogenase Bitis...
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    (Didelphini) are immune to the venom of rattlesnakes and pit vipers (Crotalinae) and regularly prey upon these snakes. This adaptation seems to be unique...
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    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...
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    rattlesnakes, massasaugas Sistrurus is a genus of pit vipers in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The genus is endemic to Canada, the United States...
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    the Batanes pit viper, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to the Philippines. The...
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