Vipera walser

Vipera walser

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea

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

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Viperinae
Genus: Vipera
Species: Vipera walser

Name

Vipera walser Ghielmi, Menegon, Marsden, Laddaga & Ursenbacher, 2016: 164

• Holotype: MSNG 34485, adult ♀, collected by A. Rosazza in the summer of 1930.
• Type locality: “San Giovanni d’Andorno, strada per Oropa at 1,300 m a.s.l. in the Alps north of town of Biella, a subrange of the Pennine Alps, Northwestern Italy”.

References

Primary references

• 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. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Vipera walser. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 23 June 2019.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Piemont-Viper
italiano: Vipera dei Walser