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| color = pink
| color = pink
| name = ''Vipera aspis hugyi''
| name = ''Vipera aspis hugyi''
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| phylum = Chordata
| subphylum = [[Vertebrate|Vertebrata]]
| subphylum = Vertebrata
| classis = [[Reptile|Reptilia]]
| classis = Reptilia
| ordo = [[Squamata]]
| ordo = Squamata
| subordo = [[Snake|Serpentes]]
| subordo = [[Snake (animal)|Serpentes]]
| familia = [[Viperidae]]
| familia = Viperidae
| subfamilia = [[Viperinae]]
| subfamilia = [[Viperinae]]
| genus = ''[[Vipera]]''
| genus = ''[[Vipera]]''
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| subspecies = '''''V. a. hugyi'''''
| subspecies = '''''V. a. hugyi'''''
| trinomial = ''Vipera aspis hugyi''
| trinomial = ''Vipera aspis hugyi''
| trinomial_authority = [[Heinrich Rudolf Schinz|Schinz]], [[1833]]
| trinomial_authority = Schinz, 1833
| synonyms = * ''Vipera Hugyi'' - Schinz, 1833
| synonyms = * ''Vipera Hugyi'' - Schinz, 1833
* ''Vipera Hugyii'' - Schinz, 1833
* ''Vipera Hugyii'' - Schinz, 1833
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'''Common names:''' (none).
'''Common names:''' (none).
 
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'''''Vipera aspis hugyi''''' is a [[venomous snake|venomous]] [[Viperinae|viper]] [[subspecies]]<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS|ID=635254|taxon=Vipera aspis hugyi|year=2006|date=15 August}}</ref> found only in [[Italy]].<ref name="EMBL">{{EMBL species|genus=Vipera|species=aspis}}</ref>
'''''Vipera aspis hugyi''''' is a venomous [[Viperinae|viper]] subspecies<ref name="ITIS">[http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=635254 ''Vipera aspis hugyi'' (TSN 635254)] at [http://www.itis.gov/index.html Integrated Taxonomic Information System]. Accessed 25 June 2007.</ref> found only in Italy.<ref name="EMBL">{{EMBL species|genus=Vipera|species=aspis}}</ref>


==Description==
==Description==
Usually marked with a fused zigzag stripe and a distinctly raised snout. Specimens from [[Montecristo|Montecristo Island]], sometimes referred to as ''V. a. montecristi'', are similar, but with a reduced tendency for the dorsal markings to fuse.<ref name="Mal03">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.</ref>
Usually marked with a fused zigzag stripe and a distinctly raised snout. Specimens from Montecristo Island, sometimes referred to as ''V. a. montecristi'', are similar, but with a reduced tendency for the dorsal markings to fuse.<ref name="Mal03">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.</ref>


==Geographic range==
==Geographic range==
[[Italy]]: [[Puglia]], [[Basilicata]], [[Calabria]], [[Sicily]] and [[Montecristo|Montecristo Island]].<ref name="EMBL"/>
Found only in Italy in Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily and on Montecristo Island.<ref name="EMBL"/>


==See also==
==See also==
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* [[:Category:True vipers - Common names|True vipers - Common names]].
* [[:Category:True vipers - Common names|True vipers - Common names]].
* [[:Category:True vipers - Synonymy|True vipers - Synonymy]].
* [[:Category:True vipers - Synonymy|True vipers - Synonymy]].
* [[Snakebite]].
* [[Snake (animal)bite]].


==Cited references==
==Cited references==
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Vipera aspis hugyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Subfamily: Viperinae
Genus: Vipera
Species: V. aspis
Subspecies: V. a. hugyi
Trinomial name
Vipera aspis hugyi
Schinz, 1833
Synonyms
  • Vipera Hugyi - Schinz, 1833
  • Vipera Hugyii - Schinz, 1833
  • Vipera Heegeri - Schreiber, 1875
  • V[ipera]. Hugii - Müller, 1880
  • Vipera aspis var. hugii - De Betta, 1883
  • Vipera aspis var. hugyi - Schreiber, 1912
  • Vipera latastei var. hugyi - Calabresi, 1924
  • Vipera aspis forma trans. rudolphi-italica - Reuss, 1924
  • Vipera aspis hugyi - Mertens & Müller, 1928
  • Rhinaspis (Latasteopara) ocellata hugii - Reuss, 1935
  • Vipera ammodytes hugyi - Schwarz, 1936
  • Vipera aspis montecristi - Mertens, 1956
  • Vipera (Rhinaspis) aspis hugyi - Obst, 1983
  • Vipera (Rhinaspis) aspis montecristi - Obst, 1983[1]

Common names: (none).  
 
Vipera aspis hugyi is a venomous viper subspecies[2] found only in Italy.[3]

Description

Usually marked with a fused zigzag stripe and a distinctly raised snout. Specimens from Montecristo Island, sometimes referred to as V. a. montecristi, are similar, but with a reduced tendency for the dorsal markings to fuse.[4]

Geographic range

Found only in Italy in Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily and on Montecristo Island.[3]

See also

Cited references

  1. 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).
  2. Vipera aspis hugyi (TSN 635254) at Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed 25 June 2007.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Species Vipera aspis at the Species2000 Database
  4. 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.