Common adder or European viper, Vipera berus, about to strike its prey. La vipere commune, Vipera vulgaris, Pelias berus. Handcoloured steel engraving by Madame Félicie Fournier and Charles Beyer after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Bernard Germain de Lacepede’s Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons, Furne et Cie, Paris, 1847.

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