The Bushmaster, lachesis muta muta is the largest Pit Viper in the world with a nasty reputation as a "cruel dude". The Bushmaster is a huge, thick-bodied and highly venomous snake with a triangularly shaped head, one of nature's warning signs that a Bushmasters live in remote, heavily forested tropical jungle terrain.
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Given the widespread distributions of pitvipers in diverse forested tropical habitats, it is not surprising that a strongly prehensile tail associated with arboreality has evolved ... Bogert, C. M. 1968. A new arboreal pit viper of the genus Bothrops from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Am. Mus. Novit. 2341: 1-14.
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The pitviper genus Porthidium has undergone several revisions since its ..... Evolution and environment in tropical America. The University of Chicago, ...
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Clinical significance of venom antigen levels in patients envenomed by the Malayan pit viper (C. rhodostomd). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and ...
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rhinoceros viper  Bitis nasicornis, a venomous, brightly colored, viperine snake found in tropical Africa, having a pair of hornlike growths on its snout. ... nasal pit; pit of stomach; pit viper; puff adder; reptilase;
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rhinoceros viper  Bitis nasicornis, a venomous, brightly colored, viperine snake found in tropical Africa, having a pair of hornlike growths on its snout. ... Malayan pit viper venom; nasal pit; pit of stomach; rattlesnake; snakebite;
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Wagler's pit vipers live throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippine Islands, Singapore, and southern Thailand. They live in the tropical rain forest and eat small mammals, birds, and other vertebrates. Wagler's pit vipers do not like to be near other snakes.
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Most dangerous, because of its large size and very potent venom, is the tropical rattlesnake. Other pit vipers without rattles are mostly tropical. They include two giant kinds -- the fer-de-lance, which ranges from the tropical coasts of Mexico to northern Argentina;
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Clinical features of green pit viper bites vary from asymptomatic to fatal bleeding. Antivenin promptly reverses the coagulopathy but has considerable adverse side effects. ... In this study, potential clinical predictors of severe outcomes (wound necrosis, wound infection, and systemic bleeding) and antivenin allergy...
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