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Vipera  Laurenti, 1768
Taxonomic Serial No.: 202180

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s):    
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2017   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassReptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles  
                         OrderSquamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents  
                            SuborderSerpentes Linnaeus, 1758 – Snakes, cobra, serpente, serpents  
                               InfraorderAlethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923  
                                  FamilyViperidae Oppel, 1811 – Pit Vipers, Vipers  
                                     SubfamilyViperinae Oppel, 1811  
                                        GenusVipera Laurenti, 1768  
    Direct Children:  
                                           SpeciesVipera altaica Tuniyev, Nilson and Andrén, 2010  
                                           SpeciesVipera ammodytes (Linnaeus, 1758) – Nose-horned Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera anatolica Eiselt and Baran, 1970 – Anatolian Meadow Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera aspis (Linnaeus, 1758) – Asp Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera barani Böhme and Joger, 1983 – Turkish Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera berus (Linnaeus, 1758)  
                                           SpeciesVipera darevskii Vedmederya, Orlov and Tuniyev, 1986 – Darevsky's Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera dinniki Nikolsky, 1913 – Dinnik's Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera eriwanensis (Reuss, 1933)  
                                           SpeciesVipera kaznakovi Nikolsky, 1909 – Caucasus Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera latastei Bosca, 1878 – Lataste's Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera lotievi Nilson, Tuniyev, Orlov, Hoggren and Andrén, 1995 – Lotiev's Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera magnifica Tuniyev and Ostrovskikh, 2001  
                                           SpeciesVipera monticola Saint Girons, 1953 – Mountain Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera olguni (Tuniyev, Avci, Tuniyev, A. L. Agasian and L. A. Agasian, 2012)  
                                           SpeciesVipera orlovi Tuniyev and Ostrovskikh, 2001  
                                           SpeciesVipera pontica Billing, Nilson and Sattler, 1990 – Black Sea Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera renardi (Christoph, 1861) – Steppe Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera seoanei Lataste, 1879 – Portugese Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera shemakhensis (Tuniyev, Orlov, Tuniyev and Kidov, 2013)  
                                           SpeciesVipera transcaucasiana Boulenger, 1913  
                                           SpeciesVipera ursinii (Bonaparte, 1835) – Meadow Viper, Orsinis Viper 
                                           SpeciesVipera walser Ghielmi, Menegon, Marsden, Laddaga and Ursenbacher, 2016  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Roy W. McDiarmid   
  Notes: U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center   
  Reference for: Vipera    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Vipera   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré   
  Publication Date: 1999   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1   
  Page(s): xi + 511   
  Publisher: The Herpetologists' League   
  Publication Place: Washington, D.C., USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-893777-01-4, 1-893777-00-6  
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Vipera   
       

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