Subfamily Viperinae Oppel 1811 (pit viper)

Reptilia - Squamata - Crotalidae

Full reference: M. Oppel. 1811. Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien als Prodom einer Naturgeschichte Derselben. Joseph Lindauer, München xii-86

Parent taxon: Crotalidae according to O. W. M. Kuhn 1966

See also Gadow 1898, Kuhn 1946, Oppel 1811, Perrier 1928 and Szyndlar 1987

Sister taxa: Agkistrodon, Aploaspis, Caudisonia, Crotalus, Gloydius, Protagras, Protobothrops, Sistrurus, Trimeresurus

Subtaxa: Bitis Vipera

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), France (8), Georgia (2), Germany (2), Greece (4), the Netherlands (1), Poland (9), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (13), Tanzania (4), the United Kingdom (5)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Armenia (1), France (1), Greece (1), Hungary (2), Italy (2), Moldova (1), Morocco (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (9), Tanzania (3), Ukraine (5)

• MN 13 of Hungary (1), Ukraine (3)

• Miocene of Austria (2), the Czech Republic (4), France (10), Georgia (1), Germany (13), Greece (1), Hungary (8), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (4), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (1), Spain (4), Ukraine (7)

Total: 156 collections including 190 occurrences

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