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habitat_narrative

Terrestrial

Found on rocky mountain slopes in the Succulent Karoo and Fynbos (including Renosterveld) biomes. Takes shelter under rock slabs on the slopes or tops of mountains (Branch 1998). Syntopic with Bitis cornuta and B. atropos in the Cederberg Range, and with B. atropos in the Swartberg Range (Phelps 2009). Several populations in the vicinity of Ladismith in the Western Cape occur on sparsely-vegetated gravel plains (Bates et al. 2014).

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