Puff adder
- Description
- Part of a collection of African specimens including bird eggs and reptiles (mostly snakes) donated by Captain CRS Pitman of London in 1959. This half grown snake was collected at Newala by CJP Ionides on 01 January 1959. Original label bears the number R3656.
- Accession Loan No.
- 51/1959/33
- Collection Class
- Reptiles
- Common Name
- puff adder
- Simple Name
- reptile: preserved in spirit
- Full Name
- VIPERIDAE: Bitis arietans (Merrem): puff adder
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-); Modern (1900-)
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Pitman, Captain Charles Robert Senhouse (from the collection of): Ionides, Mr Constantine J P
- Collection Town
- Newala
- Collection Country
- Tanzania
- Collection Area Region
- East Africa
- Collection Continent
- Africa
- Phylum
- CHORDATA: Vertebrata
- Family
- VIPERIDAE
- Genus
- Bitis
- Species
- arietans
