Cerastes cerastes
Temporal range: Pleistocene-recent |
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| Scientific classification |
| Domain: |
Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Chordata |
| Class: |
Reptilia |
| Order: |
Squamata |
| Suborder: |
Serpentes |
| Family: |
Viperidae |
| Genus: |
Cerastes |
| Species: |
C. cerastes |
| Binomial name |
Cerastes cerastes
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| Synonyms |
- [Coluber] Cerastes Linnaeus, 1758
- Coluber cornutus
Linnaeus In Hasselquist, 1762
- Cerastes cornutus — Forskål, 1775
- Vipera Cerastes
— Sonnini & Latreille, 1801
- Cerastes Hasselquistii Gray, 1842
- Cerastes Aegyptiacus
A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron &
A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
- Echidna atricaudata A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
- Vipera Avicennae Jan, 1859
- V[ipera]. (Echidna) Avicennae
— Jan, 1863
- V[ipera]. (Cerastes) cerastes
— Jan, 1863
- Cerastes cornutus — Boulenger, 1891
- Cerastes cerastes— J. Anderson, 1899
- Cerastes cornutus var. mutila
Doumergue, 1901
- Aspis cerastes — Parker, 1938
- Cerastes cerastes cerastes
— Leviton & S.C. Anderson, 1967
- Cerastes cerastes karlhartli Sochurek, 1974
- Cerastes cerastes karlhartli
— Tiedemann & Häupl, 1980
- [Cerastes cerastes] mutila
— Le Berre, 1989
- Cerastes cerastes — Y. Werner,
Le Verdier, Rosenman & Sivan, 1991
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Cerastes cerastes, commonly known as the Saharan horned viper or the desert horned viper, 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. Three subspecies have been described.