The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·114989SpeciesReptilia13 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Reptiles
  5. ›Snakes and Lizards
  6. ›Snakes
  7. ›Vipers
  8. ›True Vipers
  9. ›Vipera
Altai Viper
Plate 1 of 6. (c) Lennart Schmid, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Lennart Schmid · via iNaturalist

Altai Viper

Vipera altaica

Vipera altaica, the Altai viper, is a hybridized species of viper, a mix between Vipera berus and Vipera renardi. It has been sighted very few times and only on the borders between Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan, all near or on the Altai Mountains. Sighted Altai vipers have been small or medium sized. Its name is derived from the mountain range it has been found in.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Vipera altaica in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 114989.