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Vipera berus bosniensis

subspecies of reptile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ3511654 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vipera berus bosniensis, the Balkan cross adder or Bosnian viper, is a venomous subspecies of viper endemic to the Balkan Peninsula.

Geographic range

It is only found within the Balkan Peninsula, particularly the Herzegovina region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, hence its common name.

Taxonomy

McDiarmid et al. (1999) follow Golay et al. (1993) and recognize V. b. bosniensis as a subspecies of V. berus. However, it has been considered a full species in recent literature.

References

Further reading

External links

Vipera berus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 21 November 2007.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Vipera berus bosniensis” is subspecies of reptile. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Vipera, berus and bosniensis, not as a finished interpretation.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vipera berus bosniensis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.