Vipera ammodytes

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Viperinae
Genus: Vipera
Species:
Subspecies (3): V. a. ammodytes – V. a. meridionalis – V. a. montandoni

Vipera ammodytes (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Holotype: UUZM 95.
• Type locality: “Oriente”.

• Coluber ammodytes Linnaeus, 1758: 216 [original combination]
• Vipera ammodytes — Sonnini & Latreille, 1820 [subsequent combination]

• Vipera aspis balcanica Buresh & Zonkov, 1934

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 

• Schweiger, Mario 1992. Die Europäische Hornotter Vipera ammodytes (Linnaeus, 1758). Teil 1: Systematik, Ökologie und Lebensweise Herpetofauna 14 (77): 11–22

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Vipera ammodytes. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 7 June 2022.
• Agasyan, A., Avci, A., Tuniyev, B, Isailovic, J.C., Lymberakis, P., Andrén, C., Cogalniceanu, D., Wilkinson, J., Ananjeva, N., Üzüm, N., Orlov, N., Podloucky, R., Tuniyev, S., Kaya, U., Sindaco, R., Böhme, W., Ajtic, R., Tok, V., Ugurtas, I.H., Sevinç, M., Tomović, L., Crochet, P.-A., Haxhiu, I., Joger, U., Sterijovski, B., Nilson, G. & Jelić, D. 2009. IUCN: Vipera ammodytes  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T62255A12584303. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T62255A12584303.en. Accessed on 07 June 2022.

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