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Bitis nasicornis SHAW, 1802

                    
 

Higher Taxa

Viperidae, Serpentes (snakes

Subspecies

Common Name

E: Rhinoceros Viper
G: Nashornviper

Synonym

Coluber nasicornis SHAW 1802: 94
Vipera nasicornis – DAUDIN 1803: 322
Cerastes nasicornis — WAGLER (fide HALLOWELL 1857: 62)
Clotho nasicornis – GRAY 1842: 69
Vipera hexacera DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 1416
Echidna nasicornis – HALLOWELL 1857: 62
Bitis nasicornis – BÜTTIKOFER 1890
Bitis nasicornis – BOULENGER 1896: 500
Bitis nasicornis — SCHMIDT 1923: 143
Bitis (Macrocerastes) nasicornis — LENK et al. 1999
Bitis nasicornis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 364
Bitis nasicornis — RÖDEL & MAHSBERG 2000

Location

S Sudan, W Kenya, Uganda, Angola, W/C/E Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo, Gabon, Cameroon,
Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia,
Sierra Leone, Guinea, Central African Republic, Tanzania

Type locality: Inner Africa

Holotype

Comment

Venomous

References
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  • Briscoe, M.S. 1949. Notes on Snakes Collected in Liberia. Copeia 1949 (1): 16-18
  • Büttikofer 1890. Reisebilder aus Liberia. II. Die Bewohner Liberia 's.Thierwelt. Leyden: 1890, 8vo, 510 pp.
  • Calvete, J.J.; Escolano, J.; Sanz, L. 2007. Snake venomics of bitis species reveals large intragenus venom toxin composition variation: application to taxonomy of congeneric taxa. Journal of Proteome Research 6(7):2732-2745
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  • Gray, J. E. 1842. Monographic Synopsis of the Vipers or the family Viperidae. Zool. Miscell., 1842: 68-71
  • Hallowell,E. 1857. Notes of a collection of reptiles from the Gaboon country, West Africa, recently presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, by Dr. Herny A. Ford. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 9: 48-72
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