Hemirhagerrhis viperina (Bocage, 1873)

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:23C7E6E7-AE73-4685-AEDA-26DEB0EE0068

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11196761

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C3766D52-0326-59C4-991F-BCBFDBD6212F

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Hemirhagerrhis viperina (Bocage, 1873)
status

 

Hemirhagerrhis viperina (Bocage, 1873) View in CoL

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Records.

Basecamp 1 [- 13.7770, 13.2591, 1488 m] ( UF 187211); vic. N’Dolondolo [- 13.8105, 13.1361, 291 m] ( CAS 263028), [- 13.8109, 13.1351, 705 m] ( CAS 263032); N’Dolondolo [- 13.8133, 13.1362, 681 m] ( INBAC / AMB 10279, 10298); Catchi, rock outcrops near basecamp [- 13.7653, 13.2571, 1645 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001537, 001538), [- 13.7659, 13.2582, 1671 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001539); Catchi, basecamp [- 13.7627, 13.2562, 1597 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001540, 001541).

Comments.

This species is restricted to southwestern Angola and northern Namibia ( Marques et al. 2018). It is relatively common across its range, where it is usually found during the day in rocky outcrops.

UF

Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology and Paleobotany

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

AMB

Asenovgrad Museum

MB

Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocage

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Psammophiidae

Genus

Hemirhagerrhis