Sand Viper
Sand viper (Coluber amodytes, now Vipera ammodytes), possibly the most dangerous viper in Europe. It is also known as the nose-horned viper and the long-nosed viper. Illustration from Fauna Boica, oder gemeinnCotzige Naturgeschichte der Thiere Bayerns, a natural history of the animals of Bavaria, written by Jacob Ernst von Reiter and illustrated by Carl Wilhelm Hahn in 1830-1835
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12697927
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47677013
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4343px x 2340px
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Credit
Biodiversity Heritage Library/Science Source/Mary Evans
