Species

Vipera sakoi

Vipera sakoi · described by (TUNIYEV, AVCI, ILGAZ, OLGUN, PETROVA, BODROV, GENIEZ & TEYNIÉ 2018)

Vipera altaica, a close relative of Vipera sakoi — Pictured: Vipera altaica, a close relative from the same genus. This species is still waiting for its first free photo.
Photo: Anders Larsson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The facts

Scientific name: Vipera sakoi
First described: (TUNIYEV, AVCI, ILGAZ, OLGUN, PETROVA, BODROV, GENIEZ & TEYNIÉ 2018)
Class: Reptiles (Reptilia)
Order: Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
Group: Snakes (Serpentes)
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Vipera

Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.

Where it sits on the tree