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Protobothrops is a genus of venomous snakes in the Crotalinae subfamily of the Viperidae family. It consists of eight species that are native to southeast Asia.
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- Horned Pit Viper, Protobothrops cornutus (Smith, 1930) - Vietnam.
- Elegant Pit Viper, Protobothrops elegans (Gray, 1849) - Japan.
- Habu, Protobothrops flavoviridis - Japan.
- Jerdon's Pit Viper, Protobothrops jerdonii - India, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, and China.
- Protobothrops jerdonii jerdonii (Günther, 1875)
- Protobothrops jerdonii bourreti (Klemmer, 1963)
- Protobothrops jerdonii meridionalis (Bourret, 1935)
- Protobothrops jerdonii xanthomelas (Günther, 1889)
- Kaulback's Pit Viper, Protobothrops kaulbacki (Smith, 1940) - Myanmar.
- Brown Spotted Pit Viper, Protobothrops mucrosquamatus (Cantor, 1839) - Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
- Tokara Habu, Protobothrops tokarensis (Nagai, 1928) - Japan.
- Szechwan Pit Viper, Protobothrops xiangchengensis (Zhao, 1978) - China.
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