Residents of Ota, a small community in Ogun State, Southwestern Nigeria sighted one in 2022. rhinoceros does not include Togo, but that there has been at least one report of a specimen found there.
The distribution map they provide indicates that the general range for B. Īccording to Spawls & Branch (1995), Ghana and Togo are at the eastern limit of the range of this subspecies, and they begin to intergrade here with B. rhinoceros is found in West Africa from Togo west to Guinea and possibly to Guinea-Bissau, including the intervening countries ( Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone). gabonica, the dark triangular marking leading back from the eye towards the angle of the mouth is divided. gabonica has no such enlarged nasal 'horns', and is overall somewhat smaller than B. nasicornis has a brighter color pattern and a narrower head.
This is a characteristic that it shares with a close relative, B. Description Close-up of the headīitis rhinoceros has a distinctive set of enlarged nasal scales that look like a pair of horns on its nose. gabonica by the presence of two large nasal 'horns'. It can be easily distinguished from the closely related species B.
Common names: West African Gaboon viper, Gabino viper īitis rhinoceros is a viper species endemic to West Africa.
