Talk:Viper

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The term poisonous snake is somehow inaccurate, it's more proper to use the term venomous snake since:

Venom describes inoculable toxic substances while the word Poison describes swallowable ones.

The reference is taken fron Dr. Mara's "Venomous Snakes of the World" 22:39, 20 July 2005 User:Elbetolaija

Proteolytic enzymes
Proteolytic enzymes do not degrade lipids or DNA--just proteins. --209.180.218.156 05:07, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Etymology
The etymology vivo pario is very suspect. In ancient Roman times the animal was already known as vipera.


 * It's possible. But, as you can see, we have a reasonable reference for the current explanation and it sounds plausible to me. If you have a better one -- with a reference -- then you're welcome to add it. --Jwinius (talk) 01:02, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Horned snakes
Can some indication be put, as to which species have horns? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.190.26 (talk) 09:19, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

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Viper=Viper
'The name "viper" is derived from the Latin word, vipera, -ae, which means "viper".'

I can't help but feel like this needs to be revised, as it is very redundant.Nighthawk418 (talk) 04:56, 26 October 2016 (UTC).

Yes please. Do we just cut off the part from "-ae" onward? Or are those three characters necessary. My Latin is extremely rusty. BlackVegetable (talk) 16:26, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 24 June 2024

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The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian (talk) 10:42, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Viperidae → Viper – Per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:NCFAUNA. Viper is much more common even in google scholar. Almost 16k results vs 7k for the current name. Even when I search for "viper venom" to exclude the false positives, I get 11k results. Vpab15 (talk) 10:20, 24 June 2024 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 12:47, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Comment: Note that the Viperinae are called the "true vipers". There are also the Vipera. Does that indicate ambiguity for "Viper"? —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 14:17, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. "True" would the disambiguating qualifier in this case, the same way "pit" is for pit vipers. See also true parrot and parrot. Vpab15 (talk) 14:34, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:59, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per nomination. The Morrison Man (talk) 22:30, 25 June 2024 (UTC)