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OriginalVipera xanthina
Reason
Good quality and high EV
Articles in which this image appears
Vipera xanthina
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Reptiles
Creator
Benny Trapp
  • Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 17:16, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Quality is decent, DOF comes out a bit narrow despite a fairly large aperture being used, but focus is in the right spot, and we unfortunately can't see the tail. Probably taken in captivity which some regard as a negative (although this is not disclosed). Wish the species name could be sorted, this illustrates the Vipera xanthina article, but is titled Montivipera xanthina which is potentially confusing. --jjron (talk) 09:11, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, they are, but unfortunately amongst the 8 synonyms already listed in the article Montivipera xanthina is NOT one of them! Apparently there's a taxonomic dispute about splitting the Vipera genus, with Montivipera one of the proposed new genera (or something like that). As I say potentially quite confusing when someone clicks through from that article to find a picture with a different species name, that is not even one of those given in the article as a synonym, and the article's species name is not given as a synonym on the image page. --jjron (talk) 14:42, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Benny Trapp Montivipera xanthina.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:29, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]