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1987. 457cc: Schleich 1987. 457cv: Schleich 
1987. 163: KNP 1981/311; Schleich 1987. 
4571: Schleich 1987. 457r: Schleich 1987. 
457u: Schleich 1987. 457w: Schleich 1987. 
Darnah : 469: Kramer and Schnurrenberger 
1958, 1963. Al Wahat : 536: Kramer and 
Schnurrenberger 1963. “Cyrenaica”: IZUM 
20178, IZUM 20179; ZMB 10507; Condorelli- 
Francaviglia 1896; Kramer and Schnurrenberg¬ 
er 1963. LIBYA: “Libysche Wiiste”: ZMB 
64824. 
Comments.— Wiister et al. (2008) have 
clarified and confirmed the position of the 
genus Naja within Elapidae. Trape et al. (2009) 
revised the N. haje complex. Wallach et al. 
(2009) placed the species in the subgenus 
Uraeus Wagler, 1830 which Wallach et al. 
(2014) regarded as a valid genus. Linnaeus 
(1758) noted only Hasselquist (1757) as an earlier source for Coluber Haje but as noted by Ander- 
sson (1899), he provided scale counts which differ from those in Hasselquist, suggesting that his 
concept was based on two different specimens. The second set of ventral and subcaudal counts are 
identical to those of a specimen from the Adolphi Friderici collection published in volume two of 
the Museum Adolphi Friderici (Linnaeus 1764). Although not published until after the Systema 
Naturae, this work had been completed a decade earlier and so Linnaeus used some of the materi¬ 
al in 1758. Andersson (1899) noted that neither the specimen from the Museum Adolphi Friderici 
nor Hasselquist’s specimen appear to be extant. [Note that Schleich (1987) listed specimens KNP 
1981/272, 311, 354, and 509 as both Coluber algirus and Naja haje. We have assumed that the 
associated localities are correct for both species and that specimen numbers were inadvertently 
duplicated]. 
UCN Threat Status: Not assessed, but assumed to be Least Concern. However, regardless of 
the status of the species as a whole, this taxon is certainly threatened in portions of its North African 
range. 
Family Viperidae 
Cerastes cerastes (Linnaeus, 1758:217) (Fig. 34) 
1758 Coluber Cerastes Linnaeus, Systema Naturas per Regna Tria Naturas, Secundum Classes, Ordines, 
Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Lau- 
rentii Salvii, Holmias [Stockholm], Sweden. (4) + 823 + (I) pp. 
Holotype. — NRM Lin-98, “Oriente” [= Rashid, Nile Delta, Egypt] fide Hasselquist 1762:70-72, 315- 
322], restricted to “Egypt” by Flower (1933:830) and to “southern Judaea” by Schmidt (1939:88). 
Cerastes cerastes, Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963:539. 
Cerastes cerastes, Le Berre 1989:294. 
Cerastes cerastes, Schleich, Kastle, and Kabisch 1996:534. 
Cerastes cerastes, Trape and Mane 2006:208. 
Cerastes cerastes, Sindaco, Venchi, and Grieco 2013:192. 
Distribution.— Mauritania through southern Israel and south to Sudan, although absent 
from Morocco north of the Atlas Mountains and coastal Algeria (nominate form), also in south- 
