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Rhinoceros Viper

Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855)

Scientific Names

Preferred Names

Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855)
Species recognized by EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Bitis rhinoceros
Species recognized by wikipedia VI, Guinea Species List, wikipedia EU, wikipedia ET, and NCBI
Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855)
Species recognized by EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1, EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1, and GBIF classification
Vipera rhinoceros Schlegel 1855
Species recognized by GBIF national node type records Germany
Bitis gabonica rhinoceros
Recognized by BHL data coverage and Flickr Group
Bitis rhinoceros
Species recognized by wikidata_hierarchy tar gz, wikipedia ES, wikipedia IT, wikipedia FR, wikipedia EN, Wikidata Common Names, Wikimedia Commons, iNaturalist data coverage, and Wikipedia (inferred records)
Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855)
Species recognized by IUCN, Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024, iNaturalist, Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Hierarchy, TreatmentBank, GBIF data coverage, Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.3, and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.4
Vipera rhinoceros
Species recognized by wikidata_hierarchy tar gz

Alternative Names

Bitis gabonica rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855)
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Vipera rhinoceros Schlegel 1855
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Bitis (Macrocerastes) rhinoceros Lenk Et Al. 1999
Synonym according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Clotho rhinoceros Cope 1859
Synonym according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Echidna rhinoceros Duméril 1856
Synonym according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Vipera rhinoceros
Synonym according to NCBI
Vipera rhinoceros Schlegel 1855
Synonym according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Bitis gabonica rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855)
Invalid according to Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Hierarchy
Bitis gabonica rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855)
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.3 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.4
Vipera rhinoceros Schlegel 1855
Invalid according to Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Hierarchy
Vipera rhinoceros Schlegel 1855
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.3 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.4
Vipera rhinoceros Schlegel 1855
Synonym according to Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024

Common Names

English

Rhinoceros Viper preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names
West African Gaboon Adder
prefer
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names
West African Gaboon Viper
prefer
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names
Western Gaboon Adder
prefer
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names
Western Gaboon Viper
prefer
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Finnish

Sarvigaboninkyy preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

French

Vipère du Gabon de l’Ouest preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

German

Westliche Gabunviper preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Navajo; Navaho

Chʼizhiiʼí bideeʼ naakiígíí preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names
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Curated hierarchies for Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855)

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Reptilia
Diapsida
Lepidosauromorpha
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Serpentes
Alethinophidia Nopcsa 1923
Viperidae Oppel 1811
Crotalinae Oppel 1811
Bitis Gray 1842
Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855) (this page)
Bitis albanica Hewitt 1937
Bitis arietans (Merrem 1820)
Bitis armata (A. Smith 1826)
Bitis atropos (Linnaeus 1758)
Bitis caudalis (A. Smith 1839)
Bitis cornuta (Daudin 1803)
Bitis gabonica (A. M. C. Duméril, Bibron & A. H. A. Duméril 1854)
Bitis harenna Gower, Wade, Spawls, Böhme, Buechley, Sykes & Colston 2016
Bitis heraldica (Bocage 1889)
Bitis inornata (A. Smith 1838)
Bitis nasicornis (Shaw 1802)
Bitis parviocula Böhme 1976
Bitis peringueyi (Boulenger 1888)
Bitis rubida Branch 1997
Bitis schneideri (Boettger 1886)
Bitis worthingtoni Parker 1932
Bitis xeropaga Haacke 1975

Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024

Biota
Animalia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Squamata
Viperidae
Viperinae
Bitis
Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855) (this page)
Bitis albanica Hewitt 1937
Bitis arietans Merrem 1820
Bitis armata (Smith 1826)
Bitis atropos (Linnaeus 1758)
Bitis caudalis (Smith 1839)
Bitis cornuta (Daudin 1803)
Bitis gabonica Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854
Bitis harenna Gower, Wade, Spawls, Böhme, Buechley, Sykes & Colston 2016
Bitis heraldica (Bocage 1889)
Bitis inornata (Smith 1838)
Bitis nasicornis (Shaw & Nodder 1792)
Bitis parviocula Böhme 1976
Bitis peringueyi (Boulenger 1888)
Bitis rubida Branch 1997
Bitis schneideri (Boettger 1886)
Bitis worthingtoni Parker 1932
Bitis xeropaga Haacke 1975

Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.3

Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855) (this page)
Bitis albanica Hewitt 1937
Bitis arietans (Merrem 1820)
Bitis armata (A. Smith 1826)
Bitis atropos (Linnaeus 1758)
Bitis caudalis (A. Smith 1839)
Bitis cornuta (Daudin 1803)
Bitis gabonica (A. M. C. Duméril, Bibron & A. H. A. Duméril 1854)
Bitis harenna Gower, Wade, Spawls, Böhme, Buechley, Sykes & Colston 2016
Bitis heraldica (Bocage 1889)
Bitis inornata (A. Smith 1838)
Bitis nasicornis (Shaw 1802)
Bitis parviocula Böhme 1976
Bitis peringueyi (Boulenger 1888)
Bitis rubida Branch 1997
Bitis schneideri (Boettger 1886)
Bitis worthingtoni Parker 1932
Bitis xeropaga Haacke 1975

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Reptilia
Diapsida
Lepidosauromorpha
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Serpentes
Viperidae
Bitis
Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855) (this page)
Bitis albanica Hewitt 1937
Bitis arietans Merrem 1820
Bitis armata (Smith 1826)
Bitis atropos (Linnaeus 1758)
Bitis caudalis (Smith 1839)
Bitis cornuta (Daudin 1803)
Bitis gabonica Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854
Bitis heraldica (Bocage 1889)
Bitis inornata (Smith 1838)
Bitis nasicornis (Shaw 1802)
Bitis parviocula Böhme 1976
Bitis peringueyi (Boulenger 1888)
Bitis rubida Branch 1997
Bitis schneideri (Boettger 1886)
Bitis worthingtoni Parker 1932
Bitis xeropaga Haacke 1975

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.4

Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855) (this page)
Bitis albanica Hewitt 1937
Bitis arietans (Merrem 1820)
Bitis armata (A. Smith 1826)
Bitis atropos (Linnaeus 1758)
Bitis caudalis (A. Smith 1839)
Bitis cornuta (Daudin 1803)
Bitis gabonica (A. M. C. Duméril, Bibron & A. H. A. Duméril 1854)
Bitis harenna Gower, Wade, Spawls, Böhme, Buechley, Sykes & Colston 2016
Bitis heraldica (Bocage 1889)
Bitis inornata (A. Smith 1838)
Bitis nasicornis (Shaw 1802)
Bitis parviocula Böhme 1976
Bitis peringueyi (Boulenger 1888)
Bitis rubida Branch 1997
Bitis schneideri (Boettger 1886)
Bitis worthingtoni Parker 1932
Bitis xeropaga Haacke 1975

GBIF classification

Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Viperidae
Bitis Gray 1842
Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855) (this page)
Bitis albanica Hewitt 1937
Bitis arietans Merrem 1820
Bitis armata (Smith 1826)
Bitis atropos (Linnaeus 1758)
Bitis caudalis (Smith 1839)
Bitis cornuta (Daudin 1803)
Bitis gabonica Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854
Bitis harenna Gower, Wade, Spawls, Böhme, Buechley, Sykes & Colston (2016)
Bitis heraldica (Bocage 1889)
Bitis inornata (Smith 1838)
Bitis nasicornis (Shaw 1802)
Bitis parviocula Böhme 1976
Bitis peringueyi (Boulenger 1888)
Bitis rubida Branch 1997
Bitis schneideri (Boettger 1886)
Bitis worthingtoni Parker 1932
Bitis xeropaga Haacke 1975

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Hierarchy

Animalia
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Tetrapoda
Reptilia Laurenti 1768
Squamata Oppel 1811
Serpentes Linnaeus 1758
Alethinophidia Nopcsa 1923
Viperidae Oppel 1811
Crotalinae Oppel 1811
Bitis Gray 1842
Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855) (this page)
Bitis albanica Hewitt 1937
Bitis arietans (Merrem 1820)
Bitis armata (A. Smith 1826)
Bitis atropos (Linnaeus 1758)
Bitis caudalis (A. Smith 1839)
Bitis cornuta (Daudin 1803)
Bitis gabonica (A. M. C. Duméril, Bibron & A. H. A. Duméril 1854)
Bitis harenna Gower, Wade, Spawls, Böhme, Buechley, Sykes & Colston 2016
Bitis heraldica (Bocage 1889)
Bitis inornata (A. Smith 1838)
Bitis nasicornis (Shaw 1802)
Bitis parviocula Böhme 1976
Bitis peringueyi (Boulenger 1888)
Bitis rubida Branch 1997
Bitis schneideri (Boettger 1886)
Bitis worthingtoni Parker 1932
Bitis xeropaga Haacke 1975

IUCN

Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Viperidae
Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855) (this page)
Atheris anisolepis Mocquard 1887
Atheris barbouri Loveridge 1930
Atheris ceratophora Werner 1895
Atheris chlorechis (Pel 1851)
Atheris hirsuta Ernst & Rödel 2002
Atheris squamigera (Hallowell 1854)
Azemiops feae Boulenger 1888
Bitis atropos (Linnaeus 1758)
Bitis gabonica (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854)
Bitis nasicornis (Shaw & Nodder 1792)
Bitis peringueyi (Boulenger 1888)
Bothrocophias campbelli (Freire-Lascano 1991)
Bothrocophias colombianus (Rendahl & Vestergren 1940)
Bothrocophias hyoprora (Amaral 1935)
Bothrocophias microphthalmus (Cope 1876)
Bothrocophias myersi Gutberlet & Campbell 2001
Bothrops alternatus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854
Bothrops ammodytoides Leybold 1873
Bothrops bilineatus (Wied-Neuwied 1821)
Bothrops chloromelas (Boulenger 1912)
Bothrops cotiara (Gomes 1913)
Bothrops diporus Cope 1862
Bothrops erythromelas Amaral 1923
Bothrops fonsecai Hoge & Belluomini 1959
Bothrops itapetiningae (Boulenger 1907)
Bothrops jararaca (Wied-Neuwied 1824)
Bothrops jararacussu Lacerda 1884
Bothrops jonathani Harvey 1994
Bothrops lojanus Parker 1930
Bothrops lutzi (Miranda-Ribeiro 1915)
Bothrops mattogrossensis Amaral 1925
Bothrops medusa (Sternfield 1920)
Bothrops neuwiedi Wagler 1824
Bothrops oligolepis (Werner 1901)
Bothrops pauloensis Amaral 1925
Bothrops pubescens (Cope 1870)
Bothrops pulchra (Peters 1862)
Bothrops taeniatus Wagler 1824
Causus bilineatus Boulenger 1905
Causus defilippii (Jan 1862)
Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859)
Causus maculatus (Hallowell 1842)
Causus rasmusseni Broadley 2014
Causus resimus (Peters 1862)
Causus rhombeatus (Lichtenstein 1823)
Cerastes gasperettii Leviton & Anderson 1967
Cerastes vipera (Linnaeus 1758)
Crotalus durissus Linnaeus 1758
Daboia russelii (Shaw & Nodder 1797)
Deinagkistrodon acutus (Günther 1888)
Echis carinatus (Schneider 1801)
Echis hughesi Cherlin 1990
Echis jogeri Cherlin 1990
Echis ocellatus Stemmler 1970
Echis pyramidum (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1827)
Echis romani Trape 2018
Eristicophis macmahoni Alcock & Finn 1897
Gloydius halys (Pallas 1776)
Gloydius intermedius (Strauch 1868)
Hypnale hypnale (Merem 1820)
Hypnale nepa (Laurenti 1768)
Hypnale zara (Gray 1849)
Macrovipera lebetina (Linnaeus 1758)
Macrovipera schweizeri (Werner 1935)
Montivipera albicornuta (Nilson & Andrén 1985)
Protobothrops jerdonii (Günther 1875)
Protobothrops kaulbacki (Smith 1940)
Protobothrops mucrosquamatus (Cantor 1839)
Protobothrops sieversorum (Ziegler, Herrmann, David, Orlov & Pauwels 2000)
Protobothrops xiangchengensis (Zhao, Jiang & Huang 1978)
Pseudocerastes fieldi Schmidt 1930
Pseudocerastes persicus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854)
Pseudocerastes urarachnoides Bostanchi, S. Anderson, Kami & Papenfuss 2006
Trimeresurus albolabris Gray 1842
Trimeresurus arunachalensis Captain, Deepak, Pandit, Bhatt & Athreya 2019
Trimeresurus brongersmai Hoge 1969
Trimeresurus erythrurus (Cantor 1839)
Trimeresurus flavomaculatus (Gray 1842)
Trimeresurus fucatus Vogel, David & Pauwels 2004
Trimeresurus gramineus (Shaw 1802)
Trimeresurus gunaleni Vogel, David & Sidik 2014
Trimeresurus insularis (Kramer 1977)
Trimeresurus macrolepis Beddome 1862
Trimeresurus malabaricus (Jerdon 1854)
Trimeresurus mcgregori Taylor 1919
Trimeresurus mutabilis Stoliczka 1870
Trimeresurus schultzei Griffin 1909
Trimeresurus strigatus Gray 1842
Trimeresurus sumatranus (Raffles 1822)
Trimeresurus tibetanus Huang 1982
Tropidolaemus laticinctus (Kuch, Gumprecht & Melaun 2007)
Vipera anatolica Eiselt & Baran 1970
Vipera barani Böhme & Joger 1984
Vipera ebneri Knoppfler & Sochurek 1955
Vipera eriwanensis (Reuss 1933)
Vipera lotievi Nilson, Tuniyev, Orlov, Hoggren & Andren 1995
Vipera magnifica Tuniyev & Ostrovskikh 2001
Vipera orlovi Tuniyev & Ostrovskikh 2001
Vipera renardi (Christoph 1861)
Vipera transcaucasiana Boulenger 1913
205 additional siblings truncated for brevity.
See the resource file for a full list.

NCBI

root
cellular organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Eumetazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Craniata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Teleostomi
Euteleostomi
Sarcopterygii
Dipnotetrapodomorpha
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Sauropsida
Sauria
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Bifurcata
Unidentata
Episquamata
Toxicofera
Serpentes
Colubroidea
Viperidae
Viperinae
Bitis
Bitis rhinoceros (this page)
Bitis albanica
Bitis arietans
Bitis armata
Bitis atropos
Bitis caudalis
Bitis cornuta
Bitis gabonica
Bitis inornata
Bitis nasicornis
Bitis parviocula
Bitis peringueyi
Bitis rubida
Bitis schneideri
Bitis worthingtoni
Bitis xeropaga

wikidata_hierarchy tar gz

Biota
Eukaryota
Unikonta
Opisthokonta
Holozoa
Filozoa
Apoikozoa
Animalia
Eumetazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Olfactores
Craniata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Dipnotetrapodomorpha
Tetrapodomorpha
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Amniota
Sauropsida
Reptilia
Eureptilia
Romeriida
Diapsida
Neodiapsida
Sauria
Lepidosauromorpha
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Episquamata
Toxicofera
Ophidia
Serpentes
Alethinophidia
Caenophidia
Viperidae
Viperinae
Vipera
Vipera rhinoceros (this page)
Vipera albicornuta
Vipera altaica
Vipera ammodytes
Vipera anatolica
Vipera arietans
Vipera aspis
Vipera barani
Vipera berus
Vipera bornmuelleri
Vipera caudalis
Vipera chlorechis
Vipera cornuta
Vipera darevskii
Vipera dinniki
Vipera ebneri
Vipera eriwanensis
Vipera graeca
Vipera heraldica
Vipera hindii
Vipera hugyi
Vipera kaznakovi
Vipera latastei
Vipera latasti
Vipera latifii
Vipera lotievi
Vipera magnifica
Vipera monticola
Vipera nikolskii
Vipera olguni
Vipera orlovi
Vipera pontica
Vipera psyches
Vipera raddei
Vipera renardi
Vipera russelii
Vipera russellii
Vipera schneideri
Vipera seoanei
Vipera shemakhensis
Vipera superciliaris
Vipera transcaucasiana
Vipera ursinii
Vipera walser
Vipera xanthina

wikidata_hierarchy tar gz

Biota
Eukaryota
Unikonta
Opisthokonta
Holozoa
Filozoa
Apoikozoa
Animalia
Eumetazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Olfactores
Craniata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Dipnotetrapodomorpha
Tetrapodomorpha
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Amniota
Sauropsida
Reptilia
Eureptilia
Romeriida
Diapsida
Neodiapsida
Sauria
Lepidosauromorpha
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Episquamata
Toxicofera
Ophidia
Serpentes
Alethinophidia
Caenophidia
Viperidae
Viperinae
Bitis
Bitis rhinoceros (this page)
Bitis albanica
Bitis arietans
Bitis armata
Bitis atropos
Bitis caudalis
Bitis cornuta
Bitis gabonica
Bitis harenna
Bitis heraldica
Bitis inornata
Bitis nasicornis
Bitis olduvaiensis
Bitis parviocula
Bitis peringueyi
Bitis rubida
Bitis schneideri
Bitis worthingtoni
Bitis xeropaga
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