Vipera ammodytes montandoni

Vipera ammodytes montandoni

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Viperidae
Subfamily:	Viperinae
Genus:	Vipera
Species:	V. ammodytes
Subspecies:	V. a. montandoni

Trinomial name

Vipera ammodytes montandoni
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, 1985^[1]

Common names: transdanubian sand viper.^[2]

Vipera ammodytes montandoni is a venomous viper subspecies^[3] found in Bulgaria and southern Romania.^[4]

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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."^[5]

Geographic range

Bulgaria and southern Romania.^[4]

References

^ McDiarmid 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).
^ 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 (TSN 635292). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 12 August 2006.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Boulenger GA. 1913. The Snakes of Europe. London: Methusen & Co. Ltd. 145 pp. PDF at Skopelos Walks Accessed 12 August 2006.