Viperidae

Mapapie Balsain, Bothrops atrox (Family Viperidae) - Reptilenesia

Trigollocephalus asper  var, n. C.  lallceolati  Garman. Type locality: Opispo, Isthmus of Darien, Panama. Trigonocephlus jacaraca:  Court, ...

reptilenesia 24 Feb, 2022

Basics of Snake Fangs - Reptilenesia

Solenoglyphous fangs of a Gaboon Viper Snake fangs are specialized, elegantly modified teeth. Some are like hypodermic needles, others are m...

reptilenesia 25 Apr, 2021

Basics of Snake Taxonomy - Reptilenesia

A while back, medical-doctor-turned-snake-blog-post-translator-extraordinaire 1 Alvaro Pemartin asked me to write an article covering basic...

reptilenesia 25 Apr, 2021

Spider-tailed Adders - Pseudocerastes urarachnoides - Reptilenesia

This species was brought to my attention about two years ago by a friend who, like me, was working on completing her Master's thesis at ...

reptilenesia 25 Apr, 2021

Fea's Pitless Pitvipers - Reptilenesia

Leonardo Fea Late one spring night in 1887 in the Kakhyen Hills of Burma, 35-year-old Italian explorer Leonardo Fea  crested a karst  outcr...

reptilenesia 25 Apr, 2021