Accepted scientific name:

Synonyms:

Common name:

Roman's Saw-scaled Viper

Classification:

Animalia

Phylum Chordata

Class Reptilia

Order Squamata

Superfamily Xenophidia (Colubroidea = Caenophidia)

Family Viperidae

Genus Echis

Distribution:

Algeria, Benin, Burkina, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal

Additional data:

Venomous! Some authors consider E. arenicola as valid species (U. Joger, pers. comm.). Echis leucogaster may be synonymous to E. pyramidum (U. Joger in MCDIARMID et al. 1999). Okuda et al. (2001) argue that protein sequence differences argues in favor of classifying leucogaster as valid species.

Source database:

EMBL Reptile Database, Nov 2005

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Uetz P.

Online resource:

http://srs.embl-heidelberg.de:8000/...