Vipera maghrebiana Rage 1976 (pit viper)

Reptilia - Squamata - Crotalidae

Full reference: J.-C. Rage. 1976. Les Squamates du Miocène de Bèni Mellal, Maroc. Géologie Méditerranéenne 3(2):57-70

Belongs to Vipera according to J.-C. Rage 1984

See also Rage 1976

Sister taxa: Coluber kargii, Vipera (Daboia), Vipera (Macrovipera), Vipera (Pelias), Vipera (Vipera), Vipera antiqua, Vipera burgenlandica, Vipera latastei, Vipera maxima, Vipera natiensis, Vipera platyspondyla, Vipera sansaniensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bèni Mellal, which is in an Astaracian terrestrial horizon in Morocco

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bèni Mellal

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