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Forest Night Adder

Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859)

Scientific Names

Preferred Names

Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859)
Species recognized by EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Causus lichtensteinii
Species recognized by wikipedia VI, wikipedia CZ, Angola Species List, Benin Species List, Cameroon Species List, Democratic Republic of the Congo Species List, Gabon Species List, Ivory Coast Species List, Kenya Species List, Liberia Species List, Niger Species List, Nigeria Species List, South Sudan Species List, Togo Species List, Uganda Species List, wikipedia EU, Gulf of Guinea Species List, wikipedia ET, NCBI, and Wildfinder (WWF)
Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859)
Species recognized by GBIF classification
Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859)
Recognized by Snake Species of the World LifeDesk
Causus lichtensteinii Jan 1859
Recognized by ReptileDB
Dinodipsas angulifera Peters 1882
Species recognized by GBIF national node type records Germany
Aspidelaps lichtensteinii
Recognized by BHL data coverage
Causus lichtensteinii
Species recognized by wikidata_hierarchy tar gz, wikipedia DE, wikipedia FR, wikipedia EN, Global Biotic Interactions, iNaturalist data coverage, Wikipedia (inferred records), and GGBN data coverage
Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859)
Species recognized by IUCN, Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024, iNaturalist, Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Hierarchy, TreatmentBank, GBIF data coverage, Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.3, and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.4

Alternative Names

Aspidelaps lichtensteinii Jan 1859
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Aspidelaps lichtensteinii Jan 1859
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Causus lichtensteinii
Synonym according to ReptileDB, ReptileDB, ReptileDB, ReptileDB, and ReptileDB
Dinodipsas angulifera Peters 1882
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Aspidelaps lichtensteinii Jan 1859
Invalid according to Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Hierarchy
Aspidelaps lichtensteinii Jan 1859
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.3 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.4
Aspidelaps lichtensteinii Jan 1859
Synonym according to Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024
Dinodipsas angulifera Peters 1882
Synonym according to Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024
H(eterodon) lichtensteinii – JAN 1859
Synonym according to ReptileDB

Common Names

English

Forest night adder preferred
Recognized by ReptileDB

Curated hierarchies for Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859)

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Reptilia
Diapsida
Lepidosauromorpha
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Serpentes
Alethinophidia Nopcsa 1923
Viperidae Oppel 1811
Causinae Cope 1859
Causus Wagler 1830
Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859) (this page)
Causus bilineatus Boulenger 1905
Causus defilippii (Jan 1863)
Causus maculatus (Hallowell 1842)
Causus rasmusseni Broadley 2014
Causus resimus (Peters 1862)
Causus rhombeatus (Lichtenstein 1823)

Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024

Biota
Animalia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Squamata
Viperidae
Viperinae
Causus
Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859) (this page)
Causus bilineatus Boulenger 1905
Causus defilippii (Jan 1863)
Causus maculatus (Hallowell 1842)
Causus rasmusseni Broadley 2014
Causus resimus (Peters 1862)
Causus rhombeatus (Lichtenstein 1823)

Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.3

Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859) (this page)
Causus bilineatus Boulenger 1905
Causus defilippii (Jan 1863)
Causus maculatus (Hallowell 1842)
Causus rasmusseni Broadley 2014
Causus resimus (Peters 1862)
Causus rhombeatus (Lichtenstein 1823)

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.4

Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859) (this page)
Causus bilineatus Boulenger 1905
Causus defilippii (Jan 1863)
Causus maculatus (Hallowell 1842)
Causus rasmusseni Broadley 2014
Causus resimus (Peters 1862)
Causus rhombeatus (Lichtenstein 1823)

GBIF classification

Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Viperidae
Causus Wagler 1830
Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859) (this page)
Causus bilineatus Boulenger 1905
Causus defilippii (Jan 1863)
Causus lineatus
Causus maculatus (Hallowell 1842)
Causus rasmusseni Broadley 2014
Causus resimis
Causus resimus (Peters 1862)
Causus rhombeatus (Lichtenstein 1823)

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Hierarchy

Animalia
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Tetrapoda
Reptilia Laurenti 1768
Squamata Oppel 1811
Serpentes Linnaeus 1758
Alethinophidia Nopcsa 1923
Viperidae Oppel 1811
Causinae Cope 1859
Causus Wagler 1830
Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859) (this page)
Causus bilineatus Boulenger 1905
Causus defilippii (Jan 1863)
Causus maculatus (Hallowell 1842)
Causus rasmusseni Broadley 2014
Causus resimus (Peters 1862)
Causus rhombeatus (Lichtenstein 1823)

IUCN

Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Viperidae
Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859) (this page)
Atheris anisolepis Mocquard 1887
Atheris barbouri Loveridge 1930
Atheris ceratophora Werner 1895
Atheris chlorechis (Pel 1851)
Atheris hirsuta Ernst & Rödel 2002
Atheris squamigera (Hallowell 1854)
Azemiops feae Boulenger 1888
Bitis atropos (Linnaeus 1758)
Bitis gabonica (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854)
Bitis nasicornis (Shaw & Nodder 1792)
Bitis peringueyi (Boulenger 1888)
Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855)
Bothrocophias campbelli (Freire-Lascano 1991)
Bothrocophias colombianus (Rendahl & Vestergren 1940)
Bothrocophias hyoprora (Amaral 1935)
Bothrocophias microphthalmus (Cope 1876)
Bothrocophias myersi Gutberlet & Campbell 2001
Bothrops alternatus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854
Bothrops ammodytoides Leybold 1873
Bothrops bilineatus (Wied-Neuwied 1821)
Bothrops chloromelas (Boulenger 1912)
Bothrops cotiara (Gomes 1913)
Bothrops diporus Cope 1862
Bothrops erythromelas Amaral 1923
Bothrops fonsecai Hoge & Belluomini 1959
Bothrops itapetiningae (Boulenger 1907)
Bothrops jararaca (Wied-Neuwied 1824)
Bothrops jararacussu Lacerda 1884
Bothrops jonathani Harvey 1994
Bothrops lojanus Parker 1930
Bothrops lutzi (Miranda-Ribeiro 1915)
Bothrops mattogrossensis Amaral 1925
Bothrops medusa (Sternfield 1920)
Bothrops neuwiedi Wagler 1824
Bothrops oligolepis (Werner 1901)
Bothrops pauloensis Amaral 1925
Bothrops pubescens (Cope 1870)
Bothrops pulchra (Peters 1862)
Bothrops taeniatus Wagler 1824
Causus bilineatus Boulenger 1905
Causus defilippii (Jan 1862)
Causus maculatus (Hallowell 1842)
Causus rasmusseni Broadley 2014
Causus resimus (Peters 1862)
Causus rhombeatus (Lichtenstein 1823)
Cerastes gasperettii Leviton & Anderson 1967
Cerastes vipera (Linnaeus 1758)
Crotalus durissus Linnaeus 1758
Daboia russelii (Shaw & Nodder 1797)
Deinagkistrodon acutus (Günther 1888)
Echis carinatus (Schneider 1801)
Echis hughesi Cherlin 1990
Echis jogeri Cherlin 1990
Echis ocellatus Stemmler 1970
Echis pyramidum (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1827)
Echis romani Trape 2018
Eristicophis macmahoni Alcock & Finn 1897
Gloydius halys (Pallas 1776)
Gloydius intermedius (Strauch 1868)
Hypnale hypnale (Merem 1820)
Hypnale nepa (Laurenti 1768)
Hypnale zara (Gray 1849)
Macrovipera lebetina (Linnaeus 1758)
Macrovipera schweizeri (Werner 1935)
Montivipera albicornuta (Nilson & Andrén 1985)
Protobothrops jerdonii (Günther 1875)
Protobothrops kaulbacki (Smith 1940)
Protobothrops mucrosquamatus (Cantor 1839)
Protobothrops sieversorum (Ziegler, Herrmann, David, Orlov & Pauwels 2000)
Protobothrops xiangchengensis (Zhao, Jiang & Huang 1978)
Pseudocerastes fieldi Schmidt 1930
Pseudocerastes persicus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854)
Pseudocerastes urarachnoides Bostanchi, S. Anderson, Kami & Papenfuss 2006
Trimeresurus albolabris Gray 1842
Trimeresurus arunachalensis Captain, Deepak, Pandit, Bhatt & Athreya 2019
Trimeresurus brongersmai Hoge 1969
Trimeresurus erythrurus (Cantor 1839)
Trimeresurus flavomaculatus (Gray 1842)
Trimeresurus fucatus Vogel, David & Pauwels 2004
Trimeresurus gramineus (Shaw 1802)
Trimeresurus gunaleni Vogel, David & Sidik 2014
Trimeresurus insularis (Kramer 1977)
Trimeresurus macrolepis Beddome 1862
Trimeresurus malabaricus (Jerdon 1854)
Trimeresurus mcgregori Taylor 1919
Trimeresurus mutabilis Stoliczka 1870
Trimeresurus schultzei Griffin 1909
Trimeresurus strigatus Gray 1842
Trimeresurus sumatranus (Raffles 1822)
Trimeresurus tibetanus Huang 1982
Tropidolaemus laticinctus (Kuch, Gumprecht & Melaun 2007)
Vipera anatolica Eiselt & Baran 1970
Vipera barani Böhme & Joger 1984
Vipera ebneri Knoppfler & Sochurek 1955
Vipera eriwanensis (Reuss 1933)
Vipera lotievi Nilson, Tuniyev, Orlov, Hoggren & Andren 1995
Vipera magnifica Tuniyev & Ostrovskikh 2001
Vipera orlovi Tuniyev & Ostrovskikh 2001
Vipera renardi (Christoph 1861)
Vipera transcaucasiana Boulenger 1913
205 additional siblings truncated for brevity.
See the resource file for a full list.

NCBI

root
cellular organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Eumetazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Craniata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Teleostomi
Euteleostomi
Sarcopterygii
Dipnotetrapodomorpha
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Sauropsida
Sauria
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Bifurcata
Unidentata
Episquamata
Toxicofera
Serpentes
Colubroidea
Viperidae
Viperinae
Causus
Causus lichtensteinii (this page)
Causus defilippii
Causus maculatus
Causus resimus
Causus rhombeatus

wikidata_hierarchy tar gz

Biota
Eukaryota
Unikonta
Opisthokonta
Holozoa
Filozoa
Apoikozoa
Animalia
Eumetazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Olfactores
Craniata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Dipnotetrapodomorpha
Tetrapodomorpha
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Amniota
Sauropsida
Reptilia
Eureptilia
Romeriida
Diapsida
Neodiapsida
Sauria
Lepidosauromorpha
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Episquamata
Toxicofera
Ophidia
Serpentes
Alethinophidia
Caenophidia
Viperidae
Viperinae
Causus
Causus lichtensteinii (this page)
Causus bilineatus
Causus defilippii
Causus maculatus
Causus rasmusseni
Causus resimus
Causus rhombeatus
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