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Tisiphone (disambiguation)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tisiphone is the name of two figures in Greek mythology.

Tisiphone may also refer to:

In Biology:

  • Tisiphone (genus), a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae
  • An archaic taxonomic synonym for Agkistrodon, a.k.a. moccasins, a genus of venomous pitvipers found in North America from the United States south to northern Costa Rica
  • An archaic taxonomic synonym for Calloselasma, a.k.a. the Malayan pit viper, a monotypic genus created for a venomous pitviper species, C. rhodostoma, that is found in Southeast Asia from Thailand to northern Malaysia and on the island of Java

Other:

  • 466 Tisiphone, an asteroid which orbits among the Cybele family of asteroids