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    Species Accepted

    Bitis schneideri (Boettger, 1886)

    Namaqua Dwarf Adder

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      14 results
      Namakwa Dwergadder Afrikaans
      Namaqua Dwarf Adder English
      Namaqua Puff Adder English
      Namaqua-Zwergpuffotter German
      Namaqua-dværghugorm Danish
      Namaquaviper Norwegian Bokmål
      Schneiders Zwergpuffotter German
      Vipera di Namaqua Italian
      Vipera di Schneider Italian
      törpe puffogóvipera Hungarian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      33 results
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      Mertens, R. (1954). Neue Schlangenrassen aus Südwest- und Südafrika. Zool. Anz. 152: 213-219.
      Maritz, Bryan and Graham J. Alexander. (2012). Movement Patterns in the Smallest Viper, Bitis schneideri. Copeia Dec 2012, Vol. 2012, No. 4: 732-737.
      Alexander, G. J. and Maritz, B. (2015). Sampling interval affects the estimation of movement parameters in four species of African snakes. Journal of Zoology 297: 309–318, Doi:10.1111/Jzo.12280.
      Maritz, Bryan and Graham J. Alexander. (2011). Morphology, Sexual Dimorphism, and Growth in the Smallest Viperid, Bitis schneideri (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae). Journal of Herpetology 45 (4): 457-462.
      Phelps, T. (2010). Old World Vipers. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 558 Pp. [Critical Review in Sauria 33 (3): 19 and HR 43: 503].
      McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. (1999). Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue]. Herpetologists’ League, 511 Pp.
      Dobiey, M., & Vogel, G. (2007). Venomous Snakes of Africa - Giftschlangen Afrikas. Edition Chimaira, Terralog 15, 150 Pp.
      Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds). (2023). Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
      Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.

      Citation

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