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HORNED VIPER
Long-nosed Viper , Horned Viper , European Viper , Sand Adder , Sand Viper , Nose Horned Viper , Bulgarian Viper, Eastern Sand Viper, Transdanubian Sand Viper, Armenian Sand Viper, Transcaucasian Long-nosed Viper
Vipera ammodytes
Dangerously Venomous
 Severe envenoming possible, potentially lethal

John Fowler & Rachel Barnes

Distribution:-Austria, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Azerbaijan, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Republic of Georgia and Bosnia and Hercegovina

Comments:- Grows to around 3ft (1 meter) total length
There are 4 subspecies of Vipera ammodytes they are Vipera ammodytes ammodytes, Vipera ammodytes buchholzi and Vipera ammodytes meridionalis


Horned Viper (Vipera ammodytes) photographed at the Kerdanet Terrarium, Brittany, France


Horned Viper (Vipera ammodytes) photographed at the Vivarium de Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland
Horned Viper (Vipera ammodytes) photographed at the Vivarium de Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland


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Vipera ammodytes
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Vipera ammodytes (LINNAEUS, 1758)
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