Atractaspis aterrima, commonly known as the slender burrowing asp or mole viper, is a species of fossorial, venomous snake in the family Atractaspididae.

[2][4][6] The Reptile Database lists the following countries (from west to east):[2] Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali (southern), Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso (southern), Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (northern), Uganda, and Tanzania.

Atractaspis aterrima occurs in a wide range of habitats: coastal grasslands, dry and moist savannas, and forests.

[4][8] Based on gut contents of a single snake, the prey include caecilian Scolecomorphus kirkii and lizards (an unidentified tail).

[8] However, this observation otherwise agrees with earlier ones for A. aterrima and other Atractaspis species, documenting that they eat elongated vertebrates (snakes, amphisbaenians, skinks, and geckos), some of these fossorial.