Bitis atropos
Bitis atropos · described by (LINNAEUS 1758)
Fossil specimen.
Photo: JonRichfield, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The facts
- Scientific name
- Bitis atropos
- First described
- (LINNAEUS 1758)
- Class
- Reptiles (Reptilia)
- Order
- Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
- Group
- Snakes (Serpentes)
- Family
- Viperidae
- Genus
- Bitis
- Subspecies
- Bitis atropos atropos (LINNAEUS 1758)
- Bitis atropos unicolor FITZSIMONS 1959
Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.