Bitis (Macrocerastes) gabonica (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)

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.11196754

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7DFE2383-85F1-5BCF-BB4A-3CD3554C67E7

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scientific name

Bitis (Macrocerastes) gabonica (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)
status

 

Bitis (Macrocerastes) gabonica (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) View in CoL

Fig. 10 b View Figure 10

Record.

Catchi surroundings [precise locality unknown] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001535).

Comments.

The Gaboon viper is an African viperid with a primarily west and central African distribution, while some populations extend marginally into northern Zambia. Isolated populations exist from southern South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, and the KwaZulu-Natal region of eastern South Africa ( Spawls et al. 2023; Marques et al. 2018). In Angola, the species has been recorded mainly in northern and central areas of the country, with the southwestern-most record in Central Benguela ( Marques et al. 2018). The Serra da Neve population thus represents the southwestern-most record of the species and the first record for Namibe Province. Our specimen was killed by locals when crossing a path early in the morning. The local name for this species is M’buta, which is also used for other large viperids such as the Puff-adder, Bitis arietans Merrem, 1820 ( Ceríaco and Marques 2021).

MB

Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocage

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Viperidae

Genus

Bitis