Vipera
Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Viperoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
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., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. 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
