Reptilia - Squamata - Crotalidae

Alternative combination: Vipera (Daboia) maxima

Full reference: Z. Szyndlar. 1988. Two new extinct species of the Genera Malpolon and Vipera (Reptilia, Serpentes) from the Pliocene of Layna (Spain). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 31:607-706

Belongs to Vipera according to Z. Szyndlar 1988

See also Zerova 1992

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

Type specimen: MNCN 10032, a set of vertebrae (a single trunk vertebra). Its type locality is Layna, Cerro Pelado, which is in a Ruscinian karst horizon in Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Layna, Cerro Pelado

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