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Mountain Pit Vipers
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Mountain Pit Vipers

Ovophis

Common names: mountain pit vipers.

Ovophis is a genus of pit vipers found in Asia. Seven species are currently recognized.

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11 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 11 known species

Taiwan mountain pitviper

speciesOvophis makazayazaya

Okinawa Pitviper

speciesOvophis okinavensis

Tonkin Pit Viper

speciesOvophis tonkinensis

Chinese Mountain Pit Viper

speciesOvophis monticola

Indo-Malayan mountain pitviper

speciesOvophis convictus

Zayuan Mountain Pitviper

speciesOvophis zayuensis

Pingbian Mountain Pitviper

speciesOvophis anitae

Guanyinshan Mountain Pitviper

speciesOvophis zhaoermii

Jenkins’ mountain pitviper

speciesOvophis jenkinsi

Medog Pitviper

speciesOvophis medogensis

Langbian Mountain Pitviper

speciesOvophis langbianus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 31023.