Accepted scientific name:

Synonyms:

Common name:

Westafrikanische Augenfleck-Sandrasselotter German

Classification:

Animalia

Phylum Chordata

Class Reptilia

Order Squamata

Superfamily Xenophidia (Colubroidea = Caenophidia)

Family Viperidae

Genus Echis

Distribution:

Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Chad, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo

Additional data:

Venomous! Most common cause for snake-bite mortality in Senegal (Trape et al. 2001)

Source database:

EMBL Reptile Database, Nov 2005

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Uetz P.

Online resource:

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