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Western Gaboon Viper
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Western Gaboon Viper

Bitis rhinoceros

Bitis gabonica rhinoceros is a venomous viper subspecies endemic to West Africa. It is distinguished from the nominate subspecies, B. g. gabonica, primarily by the presence of a set of large nasal "horns".

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 145965.