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'''''Vipera''''' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|[[Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti|Laurenti]]</span>, [[|1768]]}}<ref name = Laurenti>{{Cita libro | autore = Laurenti, J. N. | anno = 1768 | titolo = Specimen Medicum, Exhibens Synopsin Reptilium Emendatum cum Experimentis Circa Venena et Antidota Reptilium Austriacorum | città = Vienna | editore = Joan. Thom. nob. de Trattnern | lingua = latino | url = http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/24989#page/5/mode/1up }}</ref> è un [[Genere (tassonomia)|genere]] di [[serpentes|serpenti]] velenosi, appartenenti alla [[famiglia (tassonomia)|famiglia]] [[Viperidae]].<ref name=TRD>{{cita web| titolo=Genus: Vipera |sito=The Reptile Database |url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Vipera&submit=Search |accesso=21 luglio 2014}}</ref>
==Descrizione==
== Tassonomia ==
Il genere ''Vipera'' comprende le seguenti [[specie]]:<ref name=TRD/>
* ''[[Vipera altaica]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Tuniyev, Nilson & Andrén, |2010</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera ammodytes]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">({{zoo|Linnaeus, |1758}})</span>
* ''[[Vipera anatolica]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Eiselt & Baran, |1970</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera aspis]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">({{zoo|Linnaeus, |1758}})</span>
* ''[[Vipera barani]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Böhme & Joger, |1983</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera berus]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">({{zoo|Linnaeus, |1758}})</span>
* ''[[Vipera darevskii]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Vedmederja, Orlov & Tuniyev, |1986</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera dinniki]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Nikolsky, |1913</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera eriwanensis]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">({{zoo|Reuss, |1933}})</span>
* ''[[Vipera kaznakovi]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Nikolsky, |1909</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera latastei]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Bosca, |1878</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera lotievi]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Nilson, Tuniyev, Orlov, Hoggren & Andrén, |1995</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera magnifica]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Tuniyev & Ostrovskikh, |2001</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera monticola]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Saint Girons, |1953</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera olguni]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">({{zoo|Tuniyev, Avci, Tuniyev, Agasian & Agasian, |2012}})</span>
* ''[[Vipera orlovi]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Tuniyev & Ostrovskikh, |2001</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera pontica]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Billing, Nilson & Sattler, |1990</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera renardi]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">({{zoo|Christoph, |1861}})</span>
* ''[[Vipera seoanei]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Lataste, |1879</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera shemakhensis]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Tuniyev, Orlov, Tuniyev & Kidov, |2013</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera transcaucasiana]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Boulenger, |1913</span>}}
* ''[[Vipera ursinii]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">({{zoo|Bonaparte, |1835}})</span>
* ''[[Vipera walser]]'' <span style="font-variant: small-caps">{{zoo|Ghielmi, Menegon, Marsden, Laddaga, Ursenbacher, |2016</span>}}
===Specie trasferite ad altri generi===
*''Vipera lebetina'' = ''[[Macrovipera lebetina]]'', simile alla precedente e diffusa in [[Asia minore]] e in alcune isole [[Grecia|greche]].
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