Reptilien

Reptiles in Austria: All species present in Austria are protected snakes: common viper (not found in Burgenland and in Vienna), sand viper (found only in Carinthia and in Styria), Aesculapian snake (not found in Vorarlberg and Tirol), smooth snake, dice snake (not found in Vorarlberg, Tirol, Salzburg), grass snake. No evidence for the occurrence of Orsini´s vipers has been found for since 1973, they are considered extinct. - Slow-worms: blindworm. - Lizards: sand lizard, green lizard (not found in Vorarlberg, Tirol, Salzburg), common lizard (the lowland variety is acutely endangered in Lower Austria and Burgenland because of loss of habitat, extinct in Vienna), Horvath´s rock lizard (only in Carinthia), common wall lizard (not found in Vorarlberg and Salzburg). - Tortoises: The European pond terrapin (apart from some released individual animals) can only be found in small numbers in the Danube Wetlands.

Literature: A. Cabela and F. Tiedemann, Atlas der Amphibien und Reptilien Ö., 1985.