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Vipera walser

Vipera walser

Classification

Family
Viperidae

Vipera walser, the Walser viper or Piedmont viper is a viper endemic to the western Italian Alps. While long considered as an isolated population of Vipera berus, molecular analyses have shown it to be a distinct species related to the Vipera ursinii-complex. Morphology Morphologically, Vipera walser closely resembles the far more widespread Vipera berus.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Italy · 4