Vipera

Vipera aspis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Viperoidea

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Viperinae
Genus: Vipera
Species (21): V. altaica – V. ammodytes – V. anatolica – V. aspis – V. berus – V. darevskii – V. dinniki – V. eriwanensis – V. graeca – V. kaznakovi – V. latastei – V. lotievi – V. monticola – V. nikolskii – V. orlovi – V. renardi – V. sakoi – V. seoanei – V. transcaucasiana – V. ursinii – V. walser

Name

Vipera Garsault, 1764: pl. 666

• Type species: Vipera aspis Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Dubois & Bour (2010).

References

Primary references

• Garsault, F.A.P. de 1764. Les figures des plantes et animaux d'usage en médecine, décrits dans la Matière Médicale de Mr. Geoffroy Médecin, dessinés d'après nature. Gravés par Mrs. Defehrt, Prevost, Duflos, Martinet &c. Niquet scrip. Vol. 5. pl. 644–729. Paris: Desprez. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Laurenti, J.N. 1768. Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austriacorum, quod authoritate et consensu (In Latin). Joan Thomae: Vienna. 217 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Lenk, P., Kalyabina, S., Wink, M. & Joger, U. 2001. Evolutionary relationships among the true vipers (Viperinae) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 19(1): 94–104. DOI: 10.1006/mpev.2001.0912 Reference page. 
• Garrigues, T., Dauga, C., Ferquel, E., Choumet, V. & Failloux, A.–B. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of Vipera Laurenti, 1768 and the related genera Macrovipera (Reuss, 1927) and Daboia (Gray, 1842), with comments about neurotoxic Vipera aspis aspis populations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35(1): 35–47. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.004 Reference page. 
• Dubois, A. & Bour, R. 2010. The nomenclatural status of the nomina of amphibians and reptiles created by Garsault (1764), with a parsimonious solution to an old nomenclatural problem regarding the genus Bufo (Amphibia, Anura), comments on the taxonomy of this genus, and comments on some nomina created by Laurenti (1768). Zootaxa 2447: 001–052. Preview. Reference page. 
• Ghielmi, S., Menegon, M., Marsden, S.J., Laddaga, L. & Ursenbacher, S. 2016. A new vertebrate for Europe: the discovery of a range-restricted relict viper in the western Italian Alps. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 54(3): 161–173. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12138 Reference page. 
• Mizsei, E., Jablonski, D., Roussos, S.A., Dimaki, M., Ioannidis, Y., Nilson, G. & Nagy, Z.T. 2017. Nuclear markers support the mitochondrial phylogeny of Vipera ursinii–renardi complex (Squamata: Viperidae) and species status for the Greek meadow viper. Zootaxa 4227(1): 75–88. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.1.4 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Vipera . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 6 May 2022.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Echte Ottern
English: Palearctic Vipers
español: Víboras
հայերեն: Իժ
日本語: クサリヘビ属
Türkçe: Engerek

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