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Atheris hispida is a viper species endemic to Central Africa. Like all other vipers, it is venomous. It is known for its extremely keeled dorsal scales ("spikes") that give it a bristly appearance. [3] No subspecies are currently recognized. [4] Common names include rough-scaled bush viper, spiny bush viper, [5] [3] hairy bush viper, [3] [6 ...
Atheris is a genus of vipers known as bush vipers. [2] They are found only in tropical subsaharan Africa (excluding southern Africa ) [ 1 ] and many species have isolated and fragmented distributions due to their confinement to rain forests . [ 3 ]
Common names: western bush viper, [3] West African leaf viper, [4] more. Atheris chlorechis is a viper species found only in the forests of West Africa. [1] [3] [5] No subspecies are currently recognized. It is the type species of its genus. [5] [6] Like all other vipers, it is a venomous species. [5]
Atheris broadleyi, or Broadley's bush viper, is an arboreal species of viper found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, and (possibly [a]) Nigeria. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The species gets its name in honour of the late Donald G. Broadley , a famous African herpetologist .
Atheris squamigera (common names: green bush viper, [3] [4] variable bush viper, [5] [6] leaf viper, [6] Hallowell's green tree viper, [7] and others) is a venomous viper species endemic to west and central Africa.
Common names: Great Lakes bush viper, Nitsche's bush viper, [2] [3] more. Atheris nitschei is a species of venomous snake, a viper in the subfamily Viperinae of the family Viperidae. The species is native to Africa. There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid. [4]
Common names for include Uzungwe viper, [4] Barbour's viper, [4] worm-eating viper, Barbour's short-headed viper, [1] [6] and Uzungwe mountain bush viper. [1] [3] No subspecies are recognized. [3] Atheris barbouri was originally described in 1930 as a member of the genus Atheris (bush vipers).
Atheris rungweensis is known from scattered locations from south-western Tanzania to north-eastern Zambia and south to the Nyika Plateau in northern Malawi. [3]Atheris rungweensis is usually found in low bushes along streams and at the edges of mountain forests at altitudes of 800–2,000 m (2,600–6,600 ft).