Habushu is aptly named after the habu snake(Trimeresurus flavoviridis) which belongs to the Pit viper family and is closely related to the American rattler or copperheads.
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Working in the High Wavy range, he discovered a species of pit viper that is now named after him as Hutton's Pit Viper (Tropidolaemus huttoni).
He is also honored by having several species named after him, including the genus of Asian pit vipers, Gloydius, the Eastern Fox Snake, Pantherophis gloydi, and the Dusty Hognose Snake, Heterodon nasicus gloydi.
While deployed in Okinawa, the SR-71s and their aircrew members gained the nickname Habu (as did the A-12s preceding them) after a southeast Asian pit viper which the Okinawans thought the plane resembled.
Agkistrodon contortrix, a.k.a. the copperhead, a venomous pit viper species found in North America
Agkistrodon piscivorus, a.k.a. the cottonmouth, a venomous pit viper found in North America
Bothrops neuwiedi, known as jararaca pintada, a venomous pit viper found in South America
Like other ACE inhibitors, it is a synthetic functional and structural analog of a peptide derived from the venom of the jararaca, a Brazilian pit viper (Bothrops jararaca).
Crotalus ruber, a venomous pit viper species found in the United States and Mexico
Reptiles include venomous snakes such as the Patagonian pit viper Bothrops ammodytoides and crossed pit viper Bothrops alternatus.
Yabuchi Island is well known for its large population of habu, the poisonous pit viper of Okinawa, and its southern coast is dense with kasanori, and Okinawan species of Ulvophyceae, an edible algae.