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Bitis arietans arietans

(MERREM, 1820)


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  • Gemeine Puffotter
  • Common puff adder, African puff adder
  • Gewone Pofadder , Aipomiro , Akipom , Asigirikolongo , Boma , Bulabundo
  • Republic of South Africa, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire; except in the Center), Congo (Brazzaville), Gabon, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Niger, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Guinea (Conakry), Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Mali, Sudan 
    Algeria, Morocco, SW Saudi Arabia, Oman
  • ​70 - 190 cm
  • Very adaptable to a wide range of habitats ( including savanna, scrub and semi-desert ) up to about 3500 metres elevation. Only absent from true desert, tropical rainforest and very high montane grassland and peaks.
  • ​Venomous
  • Antivenom: EGY, CRI, FRA, MEX, SAU, ZAF
Namibia
Lake Nakuru, Kenya
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  • Snakes
    • Colubrids >
      • Erythrolamprus jaegeri
      • Lampropelis alterna "blairi"
      • Lampropelis knoblochi
      • Lampropelis zonata agalma
      • Lampropelis zonata pulchra
      • Oxyrhopus rhombifer inaequifasciatus
      • Xenodon pulcher
    • Boids >
      • Boa constrictor longicauda
      • Corallus hortulanus
      • Lichanura trivirgata
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        • Porthidium ophryomegas
        • Porthidium yucatanicum
      • Sistrurus >
        • Sistrurus tergeminus tergeminus
        • Sistrurus miliarius barbouri
  • Lizards
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    • Heloderma suspectum "cinctum"
    • Anolis allisoni
  • Crocodilians
    • Paleosuchus trigonatus
  • Non-neotropical
    • Bitis arietans arietans
    • Montivipera albizona
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    • Montivipera xanthina
    • Morelia viridis
    • Proatheris superciliaris
    • Protobothrops mangshanensis
    • Python anchietae
    • Vipera aspis francisciredi
    • Vipera latastei gaditana
    • Vipera seoanei seoanei
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