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SchlangenSnakes: 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. 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 Ö., 1985.
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