#1579 · 🦎 reptiles
Vipera meridionalis
Vipera meridionalis
🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL
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what is it?
Vipera ammodytes meridionalis is a venomous viper subspecies endemic to Greece and Turkish Thrace.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 937 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- scientific name
- Vipera meridionalis
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Viperidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 781
- sightings worldwide
- 937
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Viperidae
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LC 🌍 25.4k seen
#1656 📷 10Timber Rattlesnake
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#1693 📷 9Prairie Rattlesnake
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1701178, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.