THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mexican Lancehead RattlesnakeCrotalus polystictus (Cope, 1865) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Crotalus pricei Van Denburgh, 1895 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Southwestern Speckled RattlesnakeCrotalus pyrrhus (Cope, 1866) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sinaloan Long-tailed RattlesnakeCrotalus stejnegeri Dunn, 1919 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Panamint RattlesnakeCrotalus stephensi Klauber, 1930 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tancitaro RattlesnakeCrotalus tancitarensis Alvarado-Díaz & Campbell, 2004 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Crotalus tlaloci Bryson, Linkem, Dorcas, Lathrop, Jones, Alvarado-Díaz, Grünwald & Murphy, 2014 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Totonacan RattlesnakeCrotalus totonacus Gloyd & Kauffeld, 1940 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Aruba Island RattlesnakeCrotalus unicolor Lidth de Jeude, 1887 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uracoan RattlesnakeCrotalus vegrandis Klauber, 1941 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Crotalus viridis (Rafinesque, 1818) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Moorish ViperDaboia mauritanica (Gray, 1849) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Palestine ViperDaboia palaestinae (Werner, 1938) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Russell’s ViperDaboia russelii (Shaw & Nodder, 1797) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eastern Russel’s ViperDaboia siamensis (Smith, 1917) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chinese MoccasinDeinagkistrodon acutus (Günther, 1888) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echis borkini Cherlin, 1990 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| PhoorsaEchis carinatus (Schneider, 1801) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Burton’s carpet viperEchis coloratus Günther, 1878 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hughes' Saw-scaled ViperEchis hughesi Cherlin, 1990 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Joger's Saw-scaled ViperEchis jogeri Cherlin, 1990 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echis khosatzkii Cherlin, 1990 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Roman's Saw-scaled ViperEchis leucogaster Roman, 1972 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cherlin's Saw-scaled ViperEchis megalocephalus Cherlin, 1990 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| African Saw-scaled ViperEchis ocellatus Stemmler, 1970 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Oman saw-scaled viperEchis omanensis Babocsay, 2004 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Egyptian Saw-scaled ViperEchis pyramidum (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echis romani Trape, 2018 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Asian sand viperEristicophis macmahoni Alcock & Finn, 1897 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chasen’s mountain pitviperGarthius chaseni (Smith, 1931) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Zoige pit viperGloydius angusticeps Shi, Yang, Huang, Orlov & Li, 2018 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Karaganda pitviperGloydius caraganus (Eichwald, 1831) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caucasian pitviperGloydius caucasicus (Nikolsky, 1916) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gloydius changdaoensis Li, 1999 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alashan pitviperGloydius cognatus (Gloyd, 1977) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himalayan PitviperGloydius himalayanus (Günther, 1864) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lancang Plateau ViperGloydius huangi Wang, Ren, Dong, Jiang, Shi, Siler & Che, 2019 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nepali PitviperGloydius nepalensis Jablonski, Tillack, Tillack, Petzold, Wilzo, Das, Idrees, Baniya, Masroor & Hofmann, 2026 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gloydius qinlingensis (Song & Chen, 1985) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red-spotted alpine pit viperGloydius rubromaculatus Shi, LI & Liu, 2017 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gobi pitviper)Gloydius stejnegeri (Rendahl, 1933) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ussuri MamushiGloydius ussuriensis (Emelianov, 1929) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gloydius variegatus Ren, Huang, Wu, Jiang & Li, 2024 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sri Lanka Humpnose ViperHypnale nepa (Laurenti, 1768) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| ZaraHypnale zara (Gray, 1849) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lachesis acrochorda (Garcia, 1896) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-headed bushmasterLachesis melanocephala Solórzano & Cerdas, 1986 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| South American BushmasterLachesis muta (Linnaeus, 1766) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atlantic Forest bushmasterLachesis rhombeata (Wied, 1824) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Central American bushmasterLachesis stenophrys Cope, 1875 | 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.