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 |
|---|---|---|
| Levantine ViperMacrovipera lebetinus (Linnaeus, 1758) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Metlapilcoatlus borealis Tepos-Ramírez, Flores-Villela, Velasco, Lara, García-Rubio & Jadin, 2021 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Central American Jumping Pit ViperMetlapilcoatlus mexicanus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Olmecan Pit ViperMetlapilcoatlus olmec (Pérez-Higareda, Smith & Juliá-Zertuche, 1985) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barbour's Montane Pit ViperMixcoatlus barbouri (Dunn, 1919) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brown’s Montane Pit ViperMixcoatlus browni (Shreve, 1938) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-tailed Horned PitviperMixcoatlus melanurus (Müller, 1924) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kenya Montane ViperMontatheris hindii (Boulenger, 1910) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lebanon ViperMontivipera bornmuelleri (Werner, 1898) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Montivipera bulgardaghica (Nilson & Andren, 1985) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caucasus ViperMontivipera raddei (Boettger, 1890) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Wagner's ViperMontivipera wagneri (Nilson & Andrén, 1984) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coastal ViperMontivipera xanthina (Gray, 1849) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Emerald Horned PitviperOphryacus smaragdinus | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Broad-horned PitviperOphryacus sphenophrys (Smith, 1960) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican Horned Pit ViperOphryacus undulatus (Jan, 1859) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Indo-Malayan mountain pitviperOvophis convictus (Stoliczka, 1870) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Taiwan mountain pitviperOvophis makazayazaya (Takahashi, 1922) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ovophis monticola (Günther, 1864) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okinawa pitviperOvophis okinavensis (Boulenger, 1892) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tonkin pitviperOvophis tonkinensis (Bourret, 1934) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Zayuan mountain pitviperOvophis zayuensis (Jiang, 1977) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Manabi Hognose PitviperPorthidium arcosae Schätti & Kramer, 1993 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dunn's Hognose ViperPorthidium dunni (Hartweg & Oliver, 1938) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Western Hognose ViperPorthidium hespere (Campbell, 1976) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Porthidium lansbergii (Schlegel, 1841) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hognosed Pit ViperPorthidium nasutum (Bocourt, 1868) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slender Hognose ViperPorthidium ophryomegas (Bocourt, 1868) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Porthidium porrasi Lamar, 2003 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Porthidium volcanicum Solórzano, 1995 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yucatán Hognose ViperPorthidium yucatanicum (Smith, 1941) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Domino-bellied viperProatheris superciliaris (Peters, 1855) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Horned Pit Viper (Fi-Si-Pan)Protobothrops cornutus (Smith, 1930) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dabie Mountains Pit ViperProtobothrops dabieshanensis Huang, Pan, Han, Zhang, Hou, Yu, Zheng & Zhang, 2012 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elegant pitviperProtobothrops elegans (Gray, 1849) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| HabuProtobothrops flavoviridis (Hallowell, 1861) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Protobothrops himalayanus Pan, Chettri, Yang, Jiang, Wang, Zhang & Vogel, 2013 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Protobothrops jerdonii (Günther, 1875) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kaulback’s lance-headed pitviperProtobothrops kaulbacki (Smith, 1940) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mang Mountain PitviperProtobothrops mangshanensis (Zhao, 1990) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mao-lan pitviperProtobothrops maolanensis Yang, Orlov & Wang, 2011 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brown spotted pitviperProtobothrops mucrosquamatus (Cantor, 1839) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sievers’ Three horned-scaled pitviperProtobothrops sieversorum (Ziegler, Herrmann, David, Orlov & Pauwels, 2000) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tokara HabuProtobothrops tokarensis (Nagai, 1928) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Trungkhanh PitviperProtobothrops trungkhanhensis Orlov, Ryabov & Nguyen, 2009 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kham plateau pitviperProtobothrops xiangchengensis (Zhao, Jiang & Huang, 1978) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Field's Horned ViperPseudocerastes fieldi Schmidt, 1930 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Persian Horned ViperPseudocerastes persicus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Iranian spider viperPseudocerastes urarachnoides Bostanchi, Anderson, Kami & Papenfuss, 2006 | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| MassasaugaSistrurus catenatus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 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.