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Cerastes vipera LINNAEUS, 1758

                       
 

Higher Taxa

Viperidae, Serpentes (snakes

Subspecies

Common Name

E: Sahara Sand Viper
G: Avicennaviper

Synonym

Coluber Vipera LINNAEUS 1758: 216
Vipera aegyptiaca DAUDIN 1803
? Cerastes Aegyptiacus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 1440
Vipera avicennae JAN 1859
Cerastes vipera — BOULENGER 1891
Aspis vipera — SAINT GIRONS 1956
Cerastes vipera — HARDING & WELCH 1980
Cerastes vipera — WELCH 1994: 43
Cerastes vipera — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 369
Vipera cerastes — SCHMIDT 2003
Cerastes vipera — VENCHI & SINDACO 2006

Location

Egypt (Sinai), Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Niger,
Israel

Type locality: “Aegypto

Holotype

Comment

Venomous! Reports from Lebanon are most likely in error (JOGER 1984

References
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  • Boulenger, George A. 1891. Catalogue of the reptiles and batrachians of Barbary (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia), based chiefly upon the notes and collections made in 1880-1884 by M. Fernand Lataste. Tr. Zool. Soc. 13: 93-164
  • Duméril, A. M. C., BIBRON, G. & DUMÉRIL, A. H. A., 1854. Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: i-xii + 781-1536
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  • Johann, H. 1981. Herpetologische Eindrücke auf einer Reise durch die Sahara. Herpetofauna 3 (13): 17-21
  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiæ. 10th Edition: 824 pp.
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  • Marx,H. 1958. Sexual dimorphism in coloration in the viper Cerastes vipera L. Nat. Hist. Misc. 164: 1-2.
  • McDiarmid,R.W.; Campbell,J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
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  • Schmidt, D. 2003. Avicennaviper. Reptilia (Münster) 8 (4): 91
  • Schnurrenberger, H. 1959. Observations on Behavior in Two Libyan Species of Viperine Snakes. Herpetologica 15 (2): 70-72
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  • Sochurek,E. 1979. Die Schlangen Nordafrikas. Mitt. Zool. Ges. Braunau 3 (8/9): 219-226
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  • Strauch, A. 1862. Essai d’une erpétologie de l’Algérie. Mémoires de l’Academie Impériale des Sciences de St. -Pétersbourg, 4:1-85
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