Vipera armata Smith, 1826

Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1:251.

Current name: Bitis armata (Smith, 1826) .

Neotype: PEM R6769; Koppe Alleen Road, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape Province, South Africa; M. Scott, 26 February 1991.

Remarks. Smith (1826) did not designate a type, and gave no details about the distribution of this species. To stabilise nomenclature Branch (1999), designated PEM R6769 as neotype.

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