Ancistrodon

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Ancistrodon - copperheads

Agkistrodon, genus Agkistrodon, genus Ancistrodon

reptile genus - a genus of reptiles

Crotalidae, family Crotalidae - New World vipers: pit vipers

Agkistrodon contortrix, copperhead - common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States

Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth, cottonmouth moccasin, water moccasin - venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States

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The reptiles such as monitor lizard Veranus niloticus, tree pangolin Manis tricuspis and water moccasin Ancistrodon piscivoruos, were directly sighted.

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Nordmark will manufacture the biological active ingredient, ancrod, which is derived from the venom of the Malayan pit viper (Ancistrodon rhodostoma).