Vipera armata Smith, 1826

Conradie, Werner, Branch, William R. & Watson, Gillian, 2019, Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata), Zootaxa 4576 (1), pp. 1-45 : 34-35

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932243
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scientific name	Vipera armata Smith, 1826
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Vipera armata Smith, 1826 View in CoL

Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1:251.

Current name: Bitis armata ( Smith, 1826) .

Neotype: PEM R6769 View Materials ; Koppe Alleen Road, De Hoop Nature Reserve , Western Cape Province, South Africa; M. Scott, 26 February 1991.

Remarks. Smith (1826) did not designate a type, and gave no details about the distribution of this species. To stabilise nomenclature Branch (1999), designated PEM R6769 as neotype.

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PEM	Port Elizabeth Museum

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Squamata
Family	Viperidae
Genus	Vipera

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