A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Viperidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| CantilAgkistrodon bilineatus Günther, 1863 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Agkistrodon conanti Gloyd, 1969 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Southern CopperheadAgkistrodon contortrix (Linnaeus, 1766) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gloyd’s MoccasinAgkistrodon howardgloydi Conant, 1984 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède, 1789) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican MoccasinAgkistrodon russeolus Gloyd, 1972 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican MoccasinAgkistrodon taylori Burger & Robertson, 1951 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acuminate bush viperAtheris acuminata Broadley, 1998 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mayombe Bush-ViperAtheris anisolepis Mocquard, 1887 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uzungwe Mountain Bush ViperAtheris barbouri Loveridge, 1930 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Broadley’s bush viperAtheris broadleyi Lawson, 1999 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Usambara bush viperAtheris ceratophora Werner, 1896 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Green bush viperAtheris chlorechis (Pel, 1852) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mt Kenya Bush ViperAtheris desaixi Ashe, 1968 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bristly Tree ViperAtheris hirsuta Ernst & Rödel, 2002 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| African Hairy Bush ViperAtheris hispida Laurent, 1955 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Katanga Mountain Bush ViperAtheris katangensis de Witte, 1953 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mount Mabu bush viperAtheris mabuensis Branch & Bayliss, 2009 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Matilda's Horned ViperAtheris matildae Menegon, Davenport & Howell, 2011 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Great Lakes Bush ViperAtheris nitschei Tornier, 1902 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mt Rungwe bush viperAtheris rungweensis Bogert, 1940 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| African Bush ViperAtheris squamigera Hallowell, 1854 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atheris subocularis Fischer, 1888 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Picado's Pit ViperAtropoides picadoi (Dunn, 1939) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-headed Burmese viperAzemiops feae Boulenger, 1888 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mountain AdderBitis atropos (Linnaeus, 1758) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gaboon AdderBitis gabonica (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bale Mountains adderBitis harenna Gower, Wade, Spawls, Böhme, Buechley, Sykes & Colston, 2016 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Angolan adder; Bocage's Horned Adder (after FRANK & RAMUS 1995).Bitis heraldica (Bocage, 1889) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hornless AdderBitis inornata (Smith, 1838) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhinoceros ViperBitis nasicornis (Shaw & Nodder, 1792) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bale Mountains adderBitis parviocula Böhme, 1977 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kenya Horned ViperBitis worthingtoni Parker, 1932 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desert Mountain AdderBitis xeropaga Haacke, 1975 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yellow-blotched Palm Pit ViperBothriechis aurifer (Salvin, 1860) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guatemala Palm Pit ViperBothriechis bicolor (Bocourt, 1868) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hussain’s Eyelash-PitviperBothriechis hussaini Arteaga, Pyron, Batista, Vieira, Meneses-Pelayo, Smith, Barrio-Amorós, Koch, Agne, Valencia, Bustamante & Harris, 2024 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Khwarg’s Eyelash-Pitviper.Bothriechis khwargi Arteaga, Pyron, Batista, Vieira, Meneses-Pelayo, Smith, Barrio-Amorós, Koch, Agne, Valencia, Bustamante & Harris, 2024 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Klebba’s Eyelash-PitviperBothriechis klebbai Arteaga, Pyron, Batista, Vieira, Meneses-Pelayo, Smith, Barrio-Amorós, Koch, Agne, Valencia, Bustamante & Harris, 2024 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coffee Palm ViperBothriechis lateralis Peters, 1862 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Central Ameri- can Eyelash-PitviperBothriechis nigroadspersus (Steindachner, 1870) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-speckled Palm Pit ViperBothriechis nigroviridis Peters, 1859 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ecuadorian Eyelash-PitviperBothriechis nitidus (Günther, 1859) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Shah’s Eyelash-PitviperBothriechis rasikusumorum Arteaga, Pyron, Batista, Vieira, Meneses-Pelayo, Smith, Barrio-Amorós, Koch, Agne, Valencia, Bustamante & Harris, 2024 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Highland Eyelash-PitviperBothriechis schlegelii (Berthold, 1846) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blotched Eyelash-PitviperBothriechis supraciliaris (Taylor, 1954) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Birri Eyelash-PitviperBothriechis torvus (Posada-Arango, 1889) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bothrocophias campbelli (Freire-Lascano, 1991) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cat LanceheadBothrocophias colombianus (Rendahl & Vestergren, 1940) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bothrocophias tulitoi Angarita-Sierra, Cubides-Cubillos & Hurtado-Gómez, 2022 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.