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Cerastes gasperettii, also known commonly as the Arabian horned viper and Gasperetti's horned viper, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Viperinae of the family Viperidae. The species is native to the Arabian Peninsula [ 3 ] and north to Palestine (region) , Iraq , and Iran .
Arabian horned viper (!) [22] Cerastes gasperettii: 75 cm (30 in) Least concern: Distributed through the peninsula, this viper prefers vegetated habitats with soft sand in which it partially buries itself. Saw-scaled viper [23] Echis carinatus: 50 cm (20 in) Least concern
Cerastes cerastes, commonly known as the Saharan horned viper [4] or the desert horned viper, [5] is a species of viper native to the deserts of Northern Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula and Levant. It is often easily recognized by the presence of a pair of supraocular "horns", although hornless individuals do occur. [4]
In the Arabian Peninsula, it occurs in Yemen and extreme southwestern Saudi Arabia. C. gasperettii: Leviton & Anderson, 1967 Gasperetti Arabian horned viper Found in Arabian Peninsula especially the Nejd region and al-Hasa: C. vipera (Linnaeus, 1758) Sahara sand viper
Gardner says the Arabian wolf and striped hyena have both gone extinct from the UAE in recent decades, and a small population of Arabian leopards that lived the Hajar Mountains until the mid-1990s ...
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An Arabian wolf in Al Ain. Many of the large mammals found in the Arabian Peninsula were well-adapted to desert life in the harsh terrain, but were wiped out by human hunting in the last hundred years or so. Hunting is now banned in the United Arab Emirates, but feral goats and donkeys are plentiful and graze indiscriminately, lessening the ...
This is a list of all genera, species and subspecies of the subfamily Viperinae, otherwise referred to as viperines, true vipers, pitless vipers or Old World vipers.It follows the taxonomy of McDiarmid et al. (1999) [1] and ITIS.