Atheris mabuensis
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Atheris mabuensis, or the Mount Mabu forest viper, is a species of venomous snake in the Viperidae family. It is endemic to Mozambique.[1]
Discovery
During his second reconnaissance visit to Mount Mabu (23–26 January 2006) Dr. Julian Bayliss found a very young forest viper in leaf litter on the floor of closed-canopy wet forest on Mount Mabu at approximately Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value).. On examination in the Port Elizabeth Museum (BayWorld, acronym PEM) herpetological collection by Prof. Bill Branch, the specimen was identified as a member of the genus Atheris, which had never previously been recorded from Mozambique and which, moreover, represented a substantial southern range extension for the genus.
References
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