Bitis nasicornis (Shaw, 1802)
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13270281 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DAE649-EF1E-951D-FCA0-FCA3C5CEFB7D |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Bitis nasicornis (Shaw, 1802) |
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Bitis nasicornis (Shaw, 1802) View in CoL (no available specimen)
This bulky viper, characterized by its horn-shaped scales at the snout tip, shows a vast African distribution. It occupies dense evergreen and semi-deciduous forests, the Western Highlands, and the forest-savanna mosaics in well-preserved forest pockets. It prefers moist valley bottoms in the dense forests, and is considered a dangerous venomous snake. It occurs up to 2,000 m altitude at Lake Awing in the BH in Cameroon (specimen observed but not collected), and up to 2,400 m in East Africa ( Spawls et al. 2002; Kucharzewski 2011). It was reported from Mbengwi, northwest of Bamenda (elev. 1,200 m) by Stucky-Stirn (1979).
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