Montatheris is a monotypic genus created for the viper species, Montatheris hindii, a venomous snake also known by the common names Kenya mountain viper, Kenya montane viper, montane viper, and '''Hind's viper'''. This is a small terrestrial species endemic to Kenya. There are no subspecies which are recognized as being valid.
Montatheris is a monotypic genus created for the viper species, Montatheris hindii, a venomous snake also known by the common names Kenya mountain viper, Kenya montane viper, montane viper, and '''Hind's viper'. This is a small terrestrial species endemic to Kenya. There are no subspecies which are recognized as being valid.
==Etymology== The specific name, hindii, is in honor of Sidney Langford Hinde, a British military medical officer and naturalist.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).