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Vipera aspis aspis🐍

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SpeciesViperidae
Reptiles

🐍Aspic viper

Vipera aspis (Linnaeus, 1758)

毒蝰（學名：Vipera aspis）是蝰屬的一種毒蛇。其毒性很強，人類被咬後死亡率達4%。其種加詞來自希臘語，意思就是“毒蛇”。它有五個亞種。

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≈ 1/390th of your weight
Also called
Asp Viper
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.16 kg
Body length
0.85 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
25 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Aspic viper

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.16 kgrecord 0.32 kg · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
0.85 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
25 yearsrecord 25 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Activity cycle
Cathemeral
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
AMB
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
Yes
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
0.52 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Aspic viper yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyViperidae
  5. ›genusVipera
  6. ›speciesVipera aspis
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  3. subfamilyViperinae
  4. genusVipera
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  12. familyViperidae
  13. subfamilyViperinae
  14. genusVipera
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Víbora áspid (es), áspisvipera (hu), аспида (bg), escurçó pirinenc (ca), Aspisviper (de), aspiskyy (fi) … and 19 more languages
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