Bitis arietans Merrem, 1820

Baptista, Ninda L., António, Telmo & Branch, William R., 2019, The herpetofauna of Bicuar National Park and surroundings, southwestern Angola: a preliminary checklist, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 203) 13 (2), pp. 96-130 : 120

Bitis arietans Merrem, 1820

Puff Adder

Material: NB713 (19); one photographic record and one specimen from Carmira Farm private collection.

Comment: Common and widespread in Angola, recorded from several localities ( Bocage 1895; Ferreira 1897; Schmidt 1933; Bogert 1940; Hellmich 1957; Laurent 1950, 1954, 1964; Thys van der Audenaerde 1967; Manaças 1981; Conradie et al. 2016), with few records from the southwest (Branch 2018; Marques et al. 2018). In Angola, it is widely known as “surucucu.”