Welcome to VipersGarden herpetological database!
The database is available in English language only.
At the moment the database contains 551 species and 1246 pictures and 3912 files related literature.
To reduce the number of entries listed in the species-dropdown list, it is recommanded to start with:
-> Class -> Family -> Species
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This list quotes all (in the final version), in different literature used (sub)species of Amphibians and Reptiles, if accepted or not.
The area, covered by this list: complete geographical Europe, North Africa (Morrocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt) the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Yemen) and the Near and Middle East (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran) as well as the Caucasus countries (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan).
Additional the most important synonyms and references are given.
What´s new:
| 2012-05-18: | Species: Alytes maurus, Bufo kassasi, B. regularis, B. xeros, Duttaphrynus dodsoni, Hoplobatrachus occipitalis, Ptychadena mascareniensis, P. schillukorum Pics: Coronella austriaca, C. girondica, Hierophis viridiflavus, Iberolacerta m. cantabrica, Zamenis situla, Vipera urs. graeca |
| 2012-05-15: | Species: Pseudotrapelus sinaitus, Trapelus agilis, T. agnetae, T. flavimaculatus, T. jayakari, T. lessonae, T. microtympanum, T. mutabilis, T. ruderatus, T. savignii, T. schmitzi, T. tournevillei, Trachylepis christinae Pics: Anatololacerta oertzeni, Lacerta pamphylica, Ophisops elegans, Phoenicolacerta laevis, Acanthodactylus schreiberi, Dolichophis jugularis, Trachylepis aurata, Tr. vittata, Testudo graeca |
| 2012-05-12: | Species: Phrynocephalus arabicus, P. guttatus, P. helioscopus, P. luteoguttatus, P. maculatus, P. mystaceus, P. ornatus, P. persicus; P. scutellatus; P. raddei Pics: Rana italica, Natrix n. natrix, N. n. persa, N. n. helvetica, N. n. schweizeri, N. n. asteptophora, N. n. cypriaca, Teira dugesii, Mauremys rivulata, Vipera ammodytes transcaucasiana |
Contributors of pictures are welcome! Please download the info-form here.
Thanks to (in alphabetical order) for sharing pictures:
Michel AYMERICH, Gergely BABOCSAY, Thomas BADER, Patrik BLOMSTEN, Daniel BOHLE, Bobby BOK, Vlad CIOFLEC, Mike ERIKZEN, Kevin EßER, Jürgen GEBHART, Richard GEMEL, Philippe GENIEZ, Bayram GÖCMEN, Berislav HORVATIC, Guram IREMASHVILI, Heidi JOST, Daniel KANE, Ingrid KOHL, Guido KREINER, Paul LAMBOURNE, Konrad MEBERT, David MODRY, Peter OEFINGER, Maxim RHYZOV, Christoph RIEGLER, Andre SCHMID, Sascha SCHMIDT, Falk SIEGENTHALER, Alex STRUGARIU, Michal SZKUDLAREK, Jürgen SÄMANN, Benny TRAPP, Angelika & Siggi TROIDL, Ilan VELIKOV, Gert Jan VERSPUI, Wolfgang WALTER, Alexander WESTERSTRÖM, Tom WINTERS, Jochen ZAUNER, Jürgen ZERBE, Michael ZILL,
Thanks to (in alphabetical order) for providing the database with literature:
Natalia B. ANANJEVA, Franco ANDREONE, Oscar ARRIBAS, Jean Pierre BARON, David BIRD, Serge BOGAERTS, Leo BORKIN, Jose C. BRITO, Mario F. BROGGI, Stephen D. BUSACK, Dan COGALNICEANU, Pierre Andre CROCHET, Richard GEMEL (NHMW), Rolf GROßHANS, Cornelius de HAAN, Laszlo KRECSAK, Michael KRONIGER, Ivelin A. MOLLOV, Jiri MORAVEC, Göran NILSON, Hans Dieter PHILIPPEN, Miklos PUKI, Edoardo RAZZETTI, Uwe SCHLÜTER, Roberto SINDACO, Jeroen SPEYBROECK, Andrei STOJANOV,