Porthidium
:"Common names: hognose pitvipers."

Porthidium is a genus of venomous pitvipers found in Mexico and southward to northern South America. The name is derived from the Greek word "portheo" and the suffix "-idus", which mean "destroy" and "having the nature of", apparently a reference to the venom. As of August 2016 nine species are recognized as being valid. The snakes of the genus "Hypnale" in southern India and Sri Lanka look quite similar to those of this genus, possibly an example of convergent evolution.
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genus
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venomous
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Q595983
pitvipers
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Mexico
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Q18
South America
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Greek
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species
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Hypnale
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Q668
India
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Q854
Sri Lanka
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convergent evolution
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Porthidium
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2016-08-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
August 2016
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parent taxon