Sahara Horned Viper
Cerastes cerastes · described by (LINNAEUS 1758)
Photo: Holger Krisp, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The facts
- Scientific name
- Cerastes cerastes
- First described
- (LINNAEUS 1758)
- Also called
- Sahara Horned Viper
- Class
- Reptiles (Reptilia)
- Order
- Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
- Group
- Snakes (Serpentes)
- Family
- Viperidae
- Genus
- Cerastes
- Subspecies
- Cerastes cerastes cerastes (LINNAEUS 1758)
- Cerastes cerastes hoofieni WERNER & SIVAN 1999
Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.