Asp snake

Asp snake
Asp snake is walking in stony area

A scarce Asp snake circling his body

A Head of Green Asp snake

Asp snake, Herpetological trip to the Alps and surroundings (France, Italy, Switzerland)

Asp snake



Asp is the modern Anglicisation of the word of aspis, which Asp in the antiquity is referred to any one of several venomous snake species that is found in the Nile region. In the Mytho;ogy of Egyptian people it is believed that the aspis referred to is the modern Egyptian cobra.

Throughout in dynastic and the Roman Egypt, the asp snake was a symbol of royalty. Moreover, in both Egypt and Greece, Asp is potent venom made it useful as a means of execution for criminals who were thought deserving of a more dignified death than that of typical executions. In some stories of Perseus, after killing Medusa the hero used winged boots to transport her head to Mount Olympus. As he was flying over Egypt some of her blood fell to the ground, which transformed into asps.

According to Plutarch, Cleopatra tested various deadly poisons on condemned persons and animals for daily entertainment and concluded that the bite of the asp was the least terrible way to die; the venom brought sleepiness and heaviness without spasms of pain. The asp snake is perhaps most famous for its role in Cleopatra's suicide, it to have been a horned viper as immortalized by both history and legend.

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European Asp

European Asp
An attractive European Asp

European Asp is on big rock/stone

A little European Asp in big stone

European Asp

European Asp is found by somebody



European Asp has also names asp, asp viper, European asp, aspic viper, and more.

European Asp or Vipera aspis is a venomous viper snake species that is found in southwestern Europe continent. Bites from this European Asp can be more severe than from the European adder species snake, Viperia berus (ommon European adder, or common European viper) not only can they be very painful, but about 4% of all untreated bites are can be fatal.

The specific name, Aspis, is a Greek word that means "viper". Five subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies.

European Asp average length is 60-65 cm. The length's males of European Asp can reach a maximum of 85 cm, and the females are rarely more than 75 cm. Males of this European Asp snakes, however are a little slimmer than females. It's tail is very short, and one-sixth to one-eighth in males.