Vipera ammodytes montandoni

Taxobox
name = "Vipera ammodytes montandoni"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Viperidae
subfamilia = Viperinae
genus = "Vipera"
species = "V. ammodytes"
subspecies = "V. a. montandoni"
trinomial = "Vipera ammodytes montandoni"
trinomial_authority = Boulenger, 1904
synonyms = * "Vipera ammodytes montandoni" - Boulenger, 1904
* "Vipera ammodytes montandoni" - Mertend & Müller, 1928
* "Vipera aspis balcanica" - Buresch & Zonkov, 1934
* "Vipera" ("Rhinaspis") "ammodytes montandoni" - 1983
* "Vipera ammodytes montandoni" - Weinsten, Minton & Wilde, 1985McDiarmid 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: transdanubian 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 montandoni" is a venomous viper subspeciesITIS|ID=635292|taxon=Vipera ammodytes montandoni|year=2006|date=12 August] found in Bulgaria and southern Romania.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 nor the summit of the rostral shield, which is deeper than broad (once and one seventh to once and a half); rostral appendage clad with ten to fourteen scales, in three (rarely two or four) transverse series between the rostral shield and the apex. Dorsal scales in twenty-one rows. Ventral shields 149 to 158; subcaudals 30 to 38. A more or less distinct blotch on the lower lip, involving five to seven labial shields without complete 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

Bulgaria and southern Romania.

ee also

* List of viperine species and subspecies
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* Snakebite

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