#1578 · 🦎 reptiles

Steppe Viper

🇳🇱 Steppeadder ·Vipera renardi

NTnear threatened 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Павел Голяков · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Alexander Yakovlev · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Aleksandr Popov / Александр Попов · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Chasovskikh · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Water body, RU-TT, RU:© Алексей Татиевский · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Rajon Yssyk-Ata, Kirgisistan:© Gerald Ochsenhofer · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Станично-Луганський район, Луганська область, Україна:© Galyna Mykytynets · CC BY 4.0
8. Simferopol's'kyi, UA-KR, UA:© Дмитрий Епихин · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Панфиловский район, Киргизия:© Leonid A. Neymark · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Rostov, RU:© Kristof Zyskowski · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Vipera renardi is a species of viper, a venomous snake in the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to Asia and Eastern Europe. Five subspecies are recognized.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 964iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

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.
964 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1861 (165 years ago).