Species details : Bitis atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)

Accepted scientific name:
Bitis atropos (Linnaeus, 1758) (accepted name) 1 literature reference for Bitis atropos  (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms:
Bitis atropos Lenk Et Al., 1999 (synonym)
Coluber atropos Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym)
Echidna atropos Duméril & Bibron, 1854 (synonym)
Vipera montana Smith, 1826 (synonym)
Infraspecific taxon: Bitis atropos atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bitis atropos unicolor Fitzsimons, 1959
Common names:
Common name Language Country
Bergotter - - Click here to show the literature
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Mountain Adder En - Click here to show the literature
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Classification:
Kingdom Animalia CoL
Phylum Chordata CoL
Class Reptilia ReptileDB
Order Squamata ReptileDB
Family Viperidae ReptileDB
Genus Bitis ReptileDB
Distribution: CPP-EC; CPP-WC; MOZ-OO; NAT-OO; SWZ-OO; TVL-MP; TVL-NP; ZIM-OO
Lifezones: -
Additional data: -
Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P., Apr-2013
Source database: ReptileDB, 3.0, Mar 2013   99%
Bibliographic citation: Uetz P. & Hošek J. (2025). The Reptile Database (version 3.0, Mar 2013). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2015 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
Online resource: http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Bitis&species=atropos
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:fe9ae118-ac8e-11e3-805d-020044200006:col20150401