:''Common names: mountain pit vipers.''
''Ovophis'' is a
genus of
venomous pitvipers
The Crotalinae, commonly known as pit vipers,Mehrtens JM (1987). ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. . crotaline snakes (from grc, κρόταλον ''krotalon'' castanet), or pit adders, are a subfa ...
found in
Asia.
Six
species are currently recognized.
Geographic range
Found in
Asia in
Nepal and
Seven Sisters (
Assam),
India, eastward through
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
,
Cambodia,
Thailand,
Laos
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,
Vietnam,
West Malaysia,
Taiwan,
Okinawa,
Sumatra
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and
Borneo.
Species
''*) Not including the nominate subspecies.''
T)
Type species.
Taxonomy
Species placed in this group have long been associated with the genus ''
Trimeresurus''.
One other species that is included in some other taxonomies is ''O. tonkinensis'' (
Bourret, 1934). It is commonly called the Tonkin pit viper and is found in
Vietnam and
China
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.
References
External links
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Crotalinae
Snake genera