Asian pit vipers

French translation: Crotalidés asiatiques

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English term or phrase:Asian pit vipers
French translation:Crotalidés asiatiques
Entered by: Florelle Murzilli

13:25 Mar 17, 2005
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Zoology
English term or phrase: Asian pit vipers
The Poachs tree viper, named after a well known American herpetologist is one of about 30 species of Asian pit vipers.

Et cette "poach's tree viper" n'existe pas... ce doit etre une énième erreur de transcription... si quelqu'un a une idée... Merci!
Florelle Murzilli
Italy
Local time: 00:11
Crotalidés asiatiques
Explanation:
Les Crotalidés asiatiques sont des. ancistrodons et des fers de lance appelés localement serpents. des bananiers (une trentaine d’espèces, ...
www.pathexo.fr/pdf/2002n3/Mion2.pdf

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omaine(s)
  – Reptiles and Amphibians
  – Analytical and Descriptive
Zoology
Domaine(s)
  – Reptiles et amphibiens
  – Zoologie analytique et descriptive
 
pit vipers Source CORRECT,
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Crotalidae Source CORRECT,
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crotalidae Source CORRECT,
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Crotalidés Source CORRECT,
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GILLES MEUNIER
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4Poach tree >> Pope tree viper ou vipere des Popes
agnes141 (X)
3Crotalidés asiatiques
GILLES MEUNIER


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Crotalidés asiatiques


Explanation:
Les Crotalidés asiatiques sont des. ancistrodons et des fers de lance appelés localement serpents. des bananiers (une trentaine d’espèces, ...
www.pathexo.fr/pdf/2002n3/Mion2.pdf

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Note added at 2005-03-17 13:28:12 (GMT)
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omaine(s)
  – Reptiles and Amphibians
  – Analytical and Descriptive
Zoology
Domaine(s)
  – Reptiles et amphibiens
  – Zoologie analytique et descriptive
 
pit vipers Source CORRECT,
PLUR

Crotalidae Source CORRECT,
PLUR

crotalidae Source CORRECT,
PLUR, VOIR FICHE

Crotalidés Source CORRECT,
PLUR
Termium

GILLES MEUNIER
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Local time: 00:11
Native speaker of: French
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asian pit vipers
Poach tree >> Pope tree viper ou vipere des Popes


Explanation:
... As herpetologist Clifford Pope once observed: "Perhaps itis only Man himself
who rivals the giant snakes in richness of diet." ...
www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/ issues95/jun95/object_0695.html -

... and a Pope's green tree viper, the first African, the second Asian species.
... Herpetologist Harry Greene calls it "a matter of testosterone tyranny, ...
www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~insrisg/ nature/nw02/0128snakes.htm - 23k -

... Pope’s Tree Viper; Popes Lanzenotter; Vipère des Popes. 0.9 m. Trimeresurus
purpureomaculatus. Mangrove Viper; Mangrovenviper; Vipère des mangroves ...
www.bvet.admin.ch/tierschutz/ 00236/00837/?lang=de&download=00368_de.pdf

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