Genus Bitis
(adders and puff adders)

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Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

• Parent taxa
  
  
  
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  Family Viperidae (pit vipers and vipers)
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  Genus Bitis (adders and puff adders)
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  Species Bitis albanica
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  Species Bitis arietans (African puff-adder)
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  Species Bitis armata
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  Species Bitis atropos
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  Species Bitis caudalis (horned adder)
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  Species Bitis cornuta
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  Species Bitis gabonica (Gaboon viper)
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  Species Bitis heraldica
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  Species Bitis inornata
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  Species Bitis nasicornis (rhinoceros viper)
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  Species Bitis parviocula
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  Species Bitis peringueyi (Peringuey's adder)
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  Species Bitis rubida
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  Species Bitis schneideri
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  Species Bitis worthingtoni
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  Species Bitis xeropaga