Causus

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Viperinae
Genus:
Species (7): C. bilineatus – C. defilippii – C. lichtensteinii – C. maculatus – C. rasmusseni – C. resimus – C. rhombeatus

Causus Wagler, 1830: 172

• Type species: Sepedon rhombeata Lichtenstein, 1823, by monotypy.

• Distichurus Hallowell, 1842
  • Type species: Distichurus maculatus Hallowell, 1842, by monotypy.

• Heterophis Peters, 1862
  • Type species: Heterophis resimus Peters, 1862, by monotypy.

• Dinodipsas Peters, 1882
  • Type species: Dinodipsas angulifera Peters, 1882, by monotypy.

• Wagler, J.G. 1830. Natürliches System der Amphibien, mit vorangehender Classification der Säugetiere und Vögel. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung: München, Stuttgart, & Tübingen. 354 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Broadley, D.G. 2014. A new species of Causus Lichtenstein from the Congo/Zambezi watershed in north-western Zambia (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae. Arnoldia (Zimbabwe) 10(29): 341–350. Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Causus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 25 May 2022.

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