Vipera aspis

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Viperinae
Genus: Vipera
Species:
Subspecies (5): V. a. aspis – V. a. atra – V. a. francisciredi – V. a. hugyi – V. a. zinnikeri

Vipera aspis (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Type material: unknown.
• Type locality: “Gallia”.

• Coluber aspis Linnaeus, 1758: 218 [original combination]
• Vipera aspis— Merrem, 1820 [subsequent combination]

• Vipera Francisci Redi Laurenti, 1768

• 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. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Vipera aspis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 9 July 2022.
• Corti, C., Pleguezuelos, J.M., Pérez-Mellado, V., Marquez, R., Cheylan, M., Geniez, P., Joger, U., Nettmann, H.K., Schmidt, B., Meyer, A., Sindaco, R., Romano, A. & Martínez-Solano, I. 2009. IUCN: Vipera aspis  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T61591A12503170. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T61591A12503170.en. Accessed on 09 July 2022.
• Krecsák, L., Golay, P., Åhlander, E. & Cárdenas, P. 2025. Taxonomic detectives: unravelling the origins of Linnaeus’s Aspic viper (Vipera aspis) and assessment of the type material with designation of a neotype. Zootaxa 5653(1): 80–96. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5653.1.4 . Reference page. 

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