A caresheet for the Gaboon Viper can be found here:

Gaboon Viper Caresheet (Bitis gabonica)

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If you would like to add to the information found within this caresheet, or perhaps discuss the contents of this caresheet, I invite everyone to do so.

If you wish to donate some images of your Gaboon Viper for use within this caresheet, with credit being given to you of course, please add them to this thread as well.

This thread is now a "sticky" at the top of the "General Venomous" forum.
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Discussion within this thread is ONLY relevant to the caresheet found in the first post. Please do not ask questions about caring for your animals in this thread. Start a new thread in the appropriate forum for the species in which you need answers.

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Very quiet this site.


Gaboon vipers are members of the Viperidae Family and can be found exclusively in Africa.
They are one out of the three members of the African Giant vipers group which consists of:
Bitis Arietans.............(Puffadder)
Bitis Gabonica..........(East and West-African Gaboon vipers)
Bitis Nasicornis........(Rhinoceros viper)

not all together correct... Bitis gabonica has been split into two and you forgot about parviocula. Gabonica got split up last year.

So it would be
Bitis Arietans.............(Puffadder)
Bitis Gabonica..........(Eastern Gaboon viper)
Bitis Rhinoceros ........(Rhinoceros viper)
Bitis Nasicornis..........(river jack or butterfly viper)
Bitis Parviocula ........ (etheopian mountain adder)

This does not really affect the care sheet though. Maybe another thread can suffice. Cheers

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