Cerastes vipera, common names Sahara sand viper and Avicenna viper, is a viper species endemic to the deserts of North Africa and the Sinai Peninsula. No subspecies are currently recognized.[4] Like all other vipers, it is venomous.
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venoms tested (B. arietans, B. gabonica, B. nasicornis, Daboia russelii and Vipera aspis). Another showed little variation in the venom potency of these snakes...
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1767, by Felice Fontana in his work Ricerche Fisiche sopra il Veleno della Vipera (Physical Research on the Venom of the Viper). Surgeon-Major Edward Nicholson...
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in Snakes with Notes on Its Occurrence in the Saharan Sand Viper, Cerastesvipera". Herpetologica. 32 (3): 332–336. JSTOR 3891463. Retrieved 24 August...
Obst FJ. 1983. Zur Kenntnis der Schlangengattung Vipera. (= On Knowledge of the Snake Genus Vipera). Zool. Abh. staatl. Mus. Tierkunde Dresden 38: 229-235...
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numerous small scales. This is in contrast to the "true" horned viper, Cerastescerastes, which has similar supraorbital "horns", each consisting of a single...
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