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    Species Accepted

    Proatheris superciliaris (Peters, 1855)

    Domino-bellied viper

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Recorded as introduced in 1 country or island

      1 result
      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
      South AfricaNo

      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      7 results
      Domino-bellied viper English
      Lowland Swamp Viper English
      Lowland viper English
      Sumpfotter German
      Ньясская гадюка Russian
      スワンプアダー Japanese
      澤蝮蛇 Chinese

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      25 results
      Broadley, D. G. (1960). Vipera superciliaris – a rare viper added to the Nyasaland list. J. Herp. Assoc. Rhodesia 12: 3–4.
      Broadley, D. G., & HOWELL, K. M. (1991). A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70.
      Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke, Davies, & John. (2021). Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 Pp., ISBN 9781775847373.
      O’Shea, M. (2018). The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London,.
      Marx, H. & G.B. RABB. (1965). Relationships and zoogeography of the viperine snakes (Family Viperidae). Fieldiana: Zoology 44 (21): 161-206.
      Stevens, & Andrew, R. (1973). A report on the lowland viper, Antheris superciliaris (Peters), from the Lake Chilwa Floodplain of Malawi. Arnoldia 6 (22): 1-22.
      Phelps, T. (2010). Old World Vipers. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 558 Pp. [Critical Review in Sauria 33 (3): 19 and HR 43: 503].
      Peters, W. C. H. (1854). Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden. Ber. Bekanntmach. Geeignet. Verhandl. Königl.-Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854: 614-628.
      Joger, U., & Courage, K. (1999). Are palearctic ‘rattlesnakes’ (Echis and Cerastes) monophyletic? Kaupia (Darmstadt) (8): 65-81.
      McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. (1999). Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue]. Herpetologists’ League, 511 Pp.

      Citation

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