Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Viperidae > Bitis > Bitis schneideri

Bitis schneideri (Namaqua dwarf adder; Namaqua Dwarf Adder, Namaqua Puff Adder)

Synonyms: Bitis caudalis paucisquamata; Bitis paucisquamata; Vipera schneideri

Wikipedia Abstract

Bitis schneideri is a venomous viper species found in a small coastal region that straddles the border between Namibia and South Africa. This is the smallest species in the genus Bitis and possibly the world's smallest viperid. No subspecies are currently recognized.
View Wikipedia Record: Bitis schneideri

Attributes

Venomous [1]  Yes

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Namib desert Namibia Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Succulent Karoo Namibia, South Africa Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Succulent Karoo Namibia, South Africa No

Prey / Diet

Breviceps namaquensis (Rain frog)[2]
Meroles knoxii (Knox's Ocellated Sand Lizard)[2]
Pachydactylus austeni (Austen Thick-toed Gecko)[2]
Pachydactylus rangei (Namib Sand Gecko, Web-footed gecko)[2]
Trachylepis variegata (Variegated Skink)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Pythonodipsas carinata (Western Keeled Snake)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Living Hazards Database, Armed Forces Pest Management Board, U.S. Army Garrison - Forest Glen
♦ 2Ecology of the Namaqua Dwarf Adder, Bitis schneideri, Bryan Maritz, Thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2011)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0