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Asp is the modern anglicisation of the word 'aspis', which in antiquity referred to any one of several venomous snake species found in the Nile region. The specific epithet, aspis, is a Greek word that means 'viper'. It is believed that aspis referred to what is now known as the Egyptian cobra. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)