!!!Schlangen

Snakes: The following non-venomous snake varieties can be found in 
Austria: Aesculapian snake (Vienna, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, 
Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Burgenland), smooth snake and grass snake 
(both in all parts of Austria), barred grass snake (Tirol, 
Vorarlberg), dice snake (Danube valley, around Baden and Graz, at 
Carinthian lakes). No venomous snakes are found in the Vienna Woods 
and the Lower Austrian Alpine foothills up to Ybbs and the 
Tullnerfeld, Wachau, Kremstal and lower Kamptal regions, the 
Weinviertel region, the Hundsheimer Berge hills, Leithagebirge 
Mountains and central Styria.

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Venomous snakes found in Austria are: common viper (in all parts of 
Austria apart from the areas mentioned above), horned viper 
(Carinthia, southern Styria), Orsini´s viper (formerly in the 
area around the southern railway line in Lower Austria, at Lake 
Neusiedl and in southern Styria, today no evidence of occurrence).

!Literature
A. Cabela and F. Tiedemann, Atlas der Amphibien und 
Reptilien Oe., 1985.


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