List of snake species in Austria

This list contains all species and subspecies of the suborder of snakes (Serpentes) living in Austria . The basis for the list is Ulrich Gruber's Kosmos nature guide, The Snakes of Europe .

Species of snakes by families

German name	Scientific name	family	Distribution in Austria	length	Toxicity	Subspecies in Austria	image
Smooth snake	Coronella austriaca	Colubridae	Open, sunny terrain with lots of hiding spots all over Austria	50-70 cm	non-toxic and harmless	austriaca
Aesculapian snake	Zamenis longissimus		Sunny areas on river banks and alluvial forests with thick bushes in the east of Lower Austria , in Burgenland , in southern and eastern Styria and in the south of Carinthia , Tyrol and Vorarlberg	140-160 cm	non-toxic and harmless	no
grass snake	Natrix natrix	Natricidae	Moist meadows or forests, near bodies of water all over Austria	Males 60-70 cm, females 80-100 cm	non-toxic and extremely harmless	natrix, until 2017 helvetica
Dice snake	Natrix tessellata		Bank areas of flat, warm, slowly flowing waters with rich bank vegetation in eastern Lower Austria, Burgenland, southern Styria and southern Carinthia	60-90 cm	non-toxic and harmless	no
Adder	Vipera berus	Viperidae	Above all moors , swamps , quarries and mountain meadows in the area of ​​the tree line throughout Austria	60-75 cm	toxic ( tubular poison teeth ), cytotoxic effect, very painful bite, antiserum !	berus
Sand otter	Vipera ammodytes		Dry areas such as scree slopes with shrubbery, macchia or light oak forests, but also river banks and the edges of ponds and lakes in Carinthia and southern Styria	60-80 cm	poisonous ( tubular poison teeth ), extremely strong and dangerous poison for humans with predominantly cytotoxic effects, antiserum !	ammodytes
Meadow otter	Vipera ursinii		Grass steppe terrain with damp depressions or watercourses (like to build in rodents' earth burrows ); The last record of Europe's smallest venomous snake comes from Austria in 1973.	35-50 cm	poisonous ( tubular poison teeth ), poison bite only weakly effective in humans, nevertheless swelling , paralysis and great pain are possible	rakosiensis

See also

• List of snake species

literature

• Ulrich Gruber: The snakes of Europe . Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, 2009, ISBN 9783440057537
• Heinz Grillitsch: Chronology of the extinction of the meadow viper, Vipera (Pelias) ursinii rakosiensis MÉHELY, 1893 in Austria. HERPETOZOA 23 (1/2): 25 - 50. Vienna