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Bitis schneideri

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA REPTILIA SQUAMATA VIPERIDAE

Scientific Name: Bitis schneideri
Species Authority: (Boettger, 1886)
Common Name/s:
English Namaqua Dwarf Adder

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Vulnerable   A2cd   ver 2.3
Year Published: 1996
Annotations:
Needs updating
Assessor/s: World Conservation Monitoring Centre
History:
1994 Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:
Native:
Namibia; South Africa
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Terrestrial

Bibliography [top]

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Citation: World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Bitis schneideri. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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