Critically Endangered
Anatolian Meadow Viper
Vipera anatolica
Anatolian Meadow Viper is a viper in the family Viperidae — Vipera anatolica, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Turkey.
The viper
This named form is a viper. The public files give taxonomy, a photograph, and a threat category — not a monograph.
Range and habitat
The snake is found in southwestern Turkey.
GBIF currently lists 29 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Anatolian Meadow Viper is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Vipera anatolica — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q15302923 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
