The carpet or saw scaled vipers of the genus echis merrem 18 20 are nocturnal small less than 90 cm fairly stout snakes with a pear shaped head covered with small scales prominent eyes with.
White bellied carpet viper.
White bellied carpet viper or north african saw scaled viper echis leucogaster in the desert of morocco north africa.
Pride of madeira flowering bush in february funchal.
West african carpet viper 10.
It is named after its white leuco unmarked belly gaster.
Big headed carpet viper 8.
Northeast african carpet viper egyptian saw scaled viper fig.
White bellied carpet viper roman s saw scaled viper.
They have a characteristic threat display rubbing sections of their body together to produce a sizzling warning sound.
White bellied carpet viper 7.
No subspecies are currently recognized.
Biogeography of the white bellied carpet viper echis leucogaster roman 1972 in morocco a study combining mitochondrial dna data and ecological niche modeling.
The coils of the body are in constant motion.
Burton s carpet viper or painted saw scaled viper echis coloratus found in the eastern part of egypt in palestine israel syria and arabian peninsula.
4 65 echis carinatus in threatening pose.
Echis leucogaster is a venomous viper species endemic to west and northwest africa.
From west east and north africa across the middle east to india and sri lanka.
Saw scaled viper in habitat.