Least ConcernPuff Adder
Bitis arietans
47 countries76 parks
Species group · Reptiles
WAnimals has 12 species of viper, in the family Viperidae.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
1 species in this group is in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Recorded in 136 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Although it accounts for a great many bites across Africa because of its wide distribution, it is usually a slow-moving snake that would rather rely on camouflage than flee.
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A Kenyan female in a Czech zoo gave birth to 156 young: the largest litter recorded in any snake in the world.
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It kills more people than any other African snake, not through aggression but through the opposite: it trusts its camouflage so completely that it does not move off the path and people tread on it.
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Endemic to south-western Europe and the Maghreb; it is recognised by the horn on its snout.
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It is one of the few venomous snakes native to the Iberian Peninsula, and can sense the body heat of small mammals even in total darkness.
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It is one of only three vipers on the Iberian Peninsula, alongside the asp viper and Seoane's viper, and the most widespread across the centre and south of the peninsula.
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Its skin, patterned in geometric blues and greens, makes it invisible in the leaf litter.
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Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 12.
It is probably the most colourful snake in Africa: a mosaic of purple, blue, green, red and yellow that, against the damp leaf litter of the forest floor, works as perfect camouflage despite looking impossible in the hand.
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