ADW: Vipera: CLASSIFICATION

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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
        
        Class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and terrestrial vertebrates)
        
        Tetrapoda (tetrapods)
        
        Amniota (amniotes)
        
        Class Reptilia
        
        Order Squamata
        
        Family Viperidae
        
        Genus Vipera
        
        Species Vipera albizona
        
        Species Vipera ammodytes (Nose-horned Viper)
        
        Species Vipera aspis (Asp Viper)
        
        Species Vipera barani (Turkish Viper)
        
        Species Vipera berus (Adder, Northern Viper)
        
        Species Vipera bornmuelleri
        
        Species Vipera darevskii (Darevsky's Viper)
        
        Species Vipera dinniki (Dinnik's Viper)
        
        Species Vipera eriwanensis
        
        Species Vipera kaznakovi (Caucasus Viper)
        
        Species Vipera latastei (Latastes Viper)
        
        Species Vipera latifii
        
        Species Vipera lotievi
        
        Species Vipera magnifica
        
        Species Vipera monticola
        
        Species Vipera nikolskii (Nikolsky's Viper)
        
        Species Vipera orlovi
        
        Species Vipera palaestinae (Palestine Viper)
        
        Species Vipera pontica (Black Sea Viper)
        
        Species Vipera raddei (Caucasus Viper)
        
        Species Vipera renardi (Steppe Viper)
        
        Species Vipera sachalinensis
        
        Species Vipera seoanei (Portugese Viper)
        
        Species Vipera transcaucasiana
        
        Species Vipera ursinii (Meadow Viper, Orsinis Viper)
        
        Species Vipera wagneri (Wagner's Viper)
        
        Species Vipera xanthina (Coastal Viper, Ottoman Viper)

Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.

To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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