- Vipera ammodytes meridionalis
Taxobox
name = "Vipera ammodytes meridionalis"
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo =Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia =Viperidae
subfamilia =Viperinae
genus = "Vipera "
species = "V. ammodytes"
subspecies = "V. a. meridionalis"
trinomial = "Vipera ammodytes meridionalis"
trinomial_authority = Boulenger, 1903
synonyms = * "Vipera ammodytes" var. "meridionalis" - Boulenger, 1903
* "Vipera meridionalis" - Bolkay, 1920
* "Vipera meridionalis" var. "connectens" - Bolkay, 1920
* "Vipera ammodytes meridionalis" - Mertens & Müller, 1928
* "Pelias meridionalis" - Reuss, 1930
* "Vipera" ("Rhinaspis") "ammodytes meridionalis" - Obst, 1983McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).] :"Common names: eastern sand viper.Steward JW. 1971. The Snakes of Europe. Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Press (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). 238 pp. LCCCN 77-163307. ISBN 0-8386-1023-4.] ""Vipera ammodytes meridionalis" is a venomous vipersubspecies ITIS|ID=|taxon=Vipera ammodytes meridionalis|year=2006|date=11 August] found inGreece and Turkish Thrace.Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. 359 pp. ISBN 0-89464-877-2.]Description
According to Boulenger (1913): "Naso-rostral shield never reaching the canthus rostralis and but rarely extending higher up than the upper border of the rostral, which is often as deep as broad, or a little deeper than broad; rostral appendage clad with fourteen to twenty scales, in four or five (rarely three) transverse series between the rostral shield and the apex. Supraciliary edge usually more prominent than in the typical form, sometimes slightly angular.
Dorsal scales in twenty-one rows (very rarely twenty-three). Ventral shields 133 to 147;subcaudals 24 to 35. A more or less distinct blotch on the lower lip, involving five or six labial shields without interruption. Lower surface of end of tail yellow."Boulenger GA. 1913. The Snakes of Europe. London: Methusen & Co. Ltd. 145 pp. [http://www.skopelos-walks.com/images/Europesnakes.pdf PDF] at [http://www.skopelos-walks.com/ Skopelos Walks] Accessed 12 August 2006.]Geographic range
Greece (incl.Corfu and other islands) and Turkish Thraceee also
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List of viperine species and subspecies
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