Animalia — Chordata
Classis : Reptilia 
Ordo : Squamata 
Subordo : Serpentes 
Familia : Viperidae 
Subfamilia : Viperinae 
Genus : Vipera 
Species : Vipera berus 
(Linnaeus, 1758)
   
Conservationis status
LC

Synonyma
Formula:Hidden begin
  • [Coluber] berus Linnaeus, 1758
  • [Coluber] Chersea Linnaeus, 1758
  • Coluber prester Linnaeus, 1761
  • Coluber vipera Anglorum Laurenti, 1768
  • Coluber Melanis Pallas, 1771
  • Coluber Scytha Pallas, 1773
  • C[oluber]. Scytha — Bonnaterre, 1790
  • Vipera melanis — Sonnini & Latreille, 1801
  • Vipera berus — Daudin, 1803
  • Vipera chersea — Daudin, 1803
  • Vipera prester — Daudin, 1803
  • [Coluber] Caeruleus Sheppard, 1804
  • Vipera communis Leach, 1817
  • Coluber chersea var. marasso Pollini, 1818
  • [Pelias] berus — Merrem, 1820
  • [Vipera] marasso — Sette, 1821
  • Vipera limnaea Bendiscioli, 1826
  • Vipera trilamina Millet, 1828
  • [Pelias] Chersea — Wagler, 1830
  • Vipera torva Lenz, 1832
  • Pelias dorsalis Gray, 1842
  • V[ipera]. Prester var. gagatina Freyer, 1842
  • Echidnoides trilamina — Mauduyt, 1844
  • Vipera Pelias Soubeiran, 1855
  • Pelias berus var. Prester — Günther, 1858
  • Pelias berus var. Chersea — Günther, 1858
  • P[elias berus]. Var. dorsalis — Cope, 1860
  • P[elias berus]. Var. niger Cope, 1860
  • V[ipera]. (Pelias) berus — Jan, 1863
  • V[ipera]. (Pelias) berus var. prester
    — Jan, 1863
  • V[ipera]. (Pelias) berus var. lymnaea
    — Jan, 1863
  • Pelias Chersea — Erber, 1863
  • Pelias berus — Erber, 1863
  • Vipera berus var. prester
    — Jan & Sordelli, 1874
  • Vipera berus [berus] — Boettger, 1889
  • [Vipera berus] var. montana Méhelÿ, 1893
  • Vipera berus — Boulenger, 1896
  • Pelias berus lugubris Kashehenko, 1902
  • Vipera berus pelias — Chabanaud, 1923
  • [Vipera (Pelias) berus] forma brunneomarcata A.F. Reuss, 1923
  • [Vipera (Pelias) berus] forma luteoalba A. F. Reuss, 1923
  • [Vipera (Pelias) berus] forma ochracea asymmetrica A. F. Reuss, 1923
  • [Vipera (Pelias) berus] rudolphi-marchica A. F. Reuss, 1924
  • [Vipera (Pelias) berus] forma bilineata A. F. Reuss, 1924
  • Vipera (Pelias) berus forma
    chersea-splendens A. F. Reuss, 1925
  • Vipera (Pelias) berus forma
    ochracea-splendens A. F. Reuss, 1925
  • Vipera (Pelias) berus forma rutila
    A. F. Reuss, 1925
  • Vipera (Pelias) berus forma punctata
    A. F. Reuss, 1925
  • Coluber sachalinensis continentalis Nikolski, 1927
  • P[elias]. sudetica A. F. Reuss, 1927
    (nomen nudum)
  • V[ipera]. berus marchici A. F. Reuss, 1927
  • Vipera berus rudolphi A. F. Reuss, 1927
    (nomen nudum)
  • Vipera berus berus
    — Mertens & L. Müller, 1928
  • [Pelias] elberfeldi A. F. Reuss, 1929
  • Pelias rudolphi — A. F. Reuss, 1930
  • Pelias schöttleri A. F. Reuss, 1930
  • P[elias]. tyrolensis A. F. Reuss, 1930
  • Pelias schreiberi A. F. Reuss, 1930
  • Pelias flavescens A. F. Reuss, 1930
    (nomen nudum)
  • Pelias subalpina A. F. Reuss, 1930
    (nomen nudum)
  • Pelias neglecta A. F. Reuss, 1932
  • Vipera berus sphagnosa Krassawzef, 1932
  • Pelias occidentalis A. F. Reuss, 1933
  • Pelias occidentalis oldesloensis
    A. F. Reuss, 1933 (nomen nudum)
  • Pelias occidentalis orbensis
    A. F. Reuss, 1933 (nomen nudum)
  • Pelias sudetica forma steinii
    A.F. Reuss, 1935 (nomen nudum)
  • Vipera marchici — A. F. Reuss, 1935
  • Pelias sudetica steinii forma emarcata A. F. Reuss, 1937 (nomen illegitimum)
  • Vipera (Vipera) berus berus — Obst, 1983
  • Vipera berus forma brunneomarcata
    — Golay et al., 1993
  • Vipera berus forma
    ochracea-asymmetrica — Golay et al., 1993
  • Vipera berus forma luteoalba
    — Golay et al., 1993
  • Pelias schoettleri — Golay et al., 1993
  • Coluber coeruleus — Golay et al., 1993
  • Vipera berus — Golay et al., 1993
Territorium
Shows the front parts of two common adders. One snake has the normal colour while the other has melanistic colour/pattern form. The head of the normal snake is enclosed in a half-coil of the melanistic form.
Usitatum et melanisticum coloris exemplaria.
An adult female adder found basking in the sun by Loch Shin, Sutherland in Scotland. She preferred to pose for a photograph rather than slither away.
Vipera berus femina.
A slender adder lies in a half circle on the bare soil which has a few dried leaves. The black zig-zag pattern along the dorsal spine of the snake contrasts against the white borders forming a pattern resembling the teeth of an open zip.
Vipera berus mas.
Closeup of snake coils with head resting on coil looking front and left. The gray dorsal scales on the thick coils are clearly seen as having prominent keels.
Vipera berus, squama lineatas in regione dorsali monstrans.

Vipera berus (vulgo fortasse coluber communis Europaeus[2] et vipera communis Europaeus,[3]) est anguis venenosus cuius distributio geographica latissime extenditur et qui per plurimum Europae Occidentalis etiam usque ad Asiam Orientalem inveni potest.[4] Vipera est res gentiliciorum morum in Britannia aliisque civitatibus Europaeis.[5] Non periculosus habetur,[2] quia hostilis non est, et mordet solum vehementer irritatus, sub pede contundus, vel manu sublatus. Eius morsus molestissimus sed raro letalis est.[6] Nomen berus, exemplum Latinae Novae, quendam anguem olim attingebat, fortasse Natricem natricem.[7]

Vipera berus in variis circumiectis naturalibus invenitur, et multiplicitas habitationis maximi momenti in eius moribus est. Parvis mammalibus, avibus, lacertis, amphibiis, et aliquando araneis, vermibus, insectisque vescitur. Sicut alii viperae, ovoviviparus est. Feminae semel in biennio vel triennio iuvenes gignunt, fetibus plerumque ab aestate exacta ad autumnum ineuntem in hemisphaerio septentrionali natis. Fetus magnitudine a tribus ad viginti variant, et iuvenes cum matre aliquot dies manent. Adulti (cum cauda) a 60 ad 90 centimetra longi sunt, et massam a 50 ad 180 grammatum habent. Tres subspecies agnoscuntur, inter quas Vipera berus berus, subspecies nominata.[8] Hic anguis in periculum addictus non habetur, quamquam in nonnullis civitatibus legitime protegitur.

Notae

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  1. ↑ IUCN (vide situs scientificos).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mallow D., Ludwig D., Nilson G.. (2003). True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Malabar Floridae: Krieger Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89464-877-2.
  3. ↑ Stidworthy J. (1974), Snakes of the World (Novi Eboraci: Grosset & Dunlap Inc.). ISBN 0-448-11856-4.
  4. ↑ McDiarmid, Campbell, et Touré 1999.
  5. ↑ "Everyday Adders – the Adder in Folklore". The Herpetological Conservation Trust .
  6. ↑ Warrell D. A. (2005). "Treatment of bites by adders and exotic venomous snakes". British Medical Journal 331 (7527): 1244–1247 .
  7. ↑ Gotch, A. F. (1986), Reptiles: Their Latin Names Explained (Poole Britanniarum Regni: Blandford Press). ISBN 0-7137-1704-1.
  8. ↑ "Vipera berus". apud Integrated Taxonomic Information System .

Bibliographia

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Nexus externi

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Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Viperam berum spectant.
Vide "Viperam berum" apud Vicispecies.
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