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Asp viper

Vipera aspis
Davart il num: "Aspis" is a Greek word that means "viper".1
Dovra in mediDarar mortal, ma ina morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi.
Vipras MorsasMangia: Charn
Privel per umans: GravIna morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.

The asp viper is a venomous snake of south-western Europe. It lives in warm, sunny places with dry soil, often in hills and rocky areas. Its bite can be more severe than that of the European adder, so it is important to know what it looks like.1

Viva en
South-western Europe: France, Andorra, north-eastern Spain, south-western Germany, Switzerland, Italy and north-western Slovenia.1
Europa
Pagina iniziala
It needs warm, sun-exposed areas with plenty of plant cover and fairly dry soil. It is found on sunny slopes, scrubland, forest clearings, woodland edges, mountain meadows, rubbish dumps and stone quarries. In France and Italy it is often found in low mountains and hills, especially in limestone areas.1
Lunghezza
60 cm fin 85 cm (2 ft fin 2,8 ft)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)
Sin terra, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
It is known to eat lizards, as shown in one photograph of an asp eating a lizard in Tuscany, Italy.1
Propi!Foto da Asp viper
Asp viper. Foto: Gilles San Martin. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

  • Average total length is 60–65 cm. Males can reach 85 cm, while females are rarely longer than 75 cm.1
  • The head is broad and triangular, and it is clearly separate from the neck.1
  • The tip of the snout is slightly but distinctly turned up.1
  • The tail is very short, and males are a little slimmer than females.1
  • The pattern on the back varies a lot. It rarely forms a clear zigzag, unlike the European adder.1

Savens confundì cun: The European adder (Vipera berus) is a close relative. The asp's back pattern rarely forms a clear zigzag, as the adder's often does. Bites from the asp can be more severe than those from the adder.1

Forza dal tissi

Morsas

Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.

Tge fa ses tissi?

Its venom causes rapidly spreading, severe pain, followed by swelling and skin discolouration. Severe bleeding and tissue death can happen within a few hours. Vision may be badly affected, and in some cases victims developed breathing and swallowing difficulties and paralysis of the bitten limb.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: GravIna morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.

About 4% of untreated bites are fatal. In Italy, this species causes 90% of snakebite cases and is the only snake in Italian mountains that can be potentially lethal. Its bites can be more severe than those of the European adder.1

Sch'el morda

  • Tegna la persuna immobila e quieta, tegna il member mors a l'autezza dal cor, prenda giu anels e chaussas strenschidas e va spert en in ospital.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

  • Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
  • Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
  • Sch'in tal animal ta morda: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

AfricaAsiaEuropaAmerica dal NordAmerica dal SidAustralia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Asp viper circa 85 cm lung (2,8 ft)In giat da chasa circa 50 cm (1,6 ft)In chaun circa 1 m (3,3 ft)
uschè lung sco 1,5 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cuauschè lung sco 5 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 110 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Asp viper cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.

Quant svelt è el?

bun da savair

Fatgs

1

Ancient writers named the snake that supposedly killed Queen Cleopatra as an asp. Experts think a cobra would have been too big, over 5 feet long, to smuggle in a basket.1

2

In the past, the word "asp" was used to mean any venomous snake.1

3

In 2006, a number of these vipers were found in a wooded area near Poortugaal in the Netherlands. The species is not native there, so it was probably released or escaped.1

4

Asp vipers have been found at over 2,100 m above sea level in the Pyrenees, even though they are not strongly linked to high altitudes.1

5

The venom yield is relatively low. One study recorded a daily extraction of 9–10 mg.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: Queen Cleopatra was killed by a cobra.

Vardad: Ancient sources named the snake an asp. Experts think a cobra would have been too big to smuggle in a basket.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Vipera aspis
Gruppa
Vipras
Famiglia
Viperidae2
Urden
Squamata
Continents
Europa
Co ch'i va ad el en la natira
Vulnerable (IUCN Red List, assessed 2022)1
Privel per umans
3 / 5: Grav3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Vipera aspis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Vipera aspis (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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