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, Rage 1984 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 (1), Spain (13), Tanzania (4), the United Kingdom (5)

• Villafranchian of Greece (1), Italy (1), Spain (1)

• MN 16 of Poland (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (2)

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

• Pliocene of Armenia (1), France (1), Greece (1), Hungary (2), Italy (1), Morocco (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (7), Tanzania (3), Ukraine (4)

• MN 13 of Hungary (1), Ukraine (3)

• Turolian of Greece (1), Hungary (3)

• Miocene of Austria (2), Czechia (4), France (10), Georgia (1), Germany (13), Hungary (5), 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: 157 collections including 191 occurrences

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