Vipera burgenlandica Bachmayer and Szyndlar 1987 (pit viper)

Reptilia - Squamata - Crotalidae

Alternative combination: Vipera (Daboia) burgenlandica

Full reference: F. Bachmayer and Z. Szyndlar. 1987. A second contribution to the ophidian fauna (Reptilia: Serpentes) of Kohfidisch, Austria. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A: Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Palaeontologie, Anthropologie Praehistorie 88:25-39

Belongs to Vipera according to F Bachmayer and Z Szyndlar 1987

See also Zerova 1992

Sister taxa: Coluber kargii, Vipera (Daboia), Vipera (Macrovipera), Vipera (Pelias), Vipera (Vipera), Vipera antiqua, Vipera gedulyi, Vipera latastei, Vipera maghrebiana, Vipera maxima, Vipera natiensis, Vipera platyspondyla

Type specimen: NMW 1986/3 (an isolated basiparasphenoid). Its type locality is Kohfidisch, which is in a MN 11 terrestrial horizon in Austria.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Kohfidisch

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