Daboia mauritanica
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Viperoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Viperinae
Genus: Daboia
Species: Daboia mauritanica
Name
[edit]Daboia mauritanica (Gray, 1849)
- Lectotype: MNHN-RA-0.4017, ♀, collected by A. Guichenot between 1840–1842. [designated by Anderson (1892: 20)]
- Type locality: “Algiers”.
Combinations
[edit]- Clotho mauritanica Gray, 1849: 27 [original combination]
- Echidna mauritanica — Duméril & Bibron in Guichenot, 1850: 24 [subsequent combination]
- Bitis mauritanica — Günther, 1858: 268 [subsequent combination]
- Vipera mauritanica — Strauch, 1869: 79 [subsequent combination]
- Vipera euphratica mauritanica — Boettger, 1883 [subsequent combination]
- Vipera lebetina mauritanica — Schwarz, 1936 [subsequent combination]
- Daboia lebetina mauritanica — Obst, 1983 [subsequent combination]
- Macrovipera mauritanica — Herrmann, Joger & Nilson, 1992: 389 [subsequent combination]
- Daboia mauritanica — Lenk, Kalyabina, Wink & Joger, 2001 [subsequent combination]
Synonyms
[edit]- Echidna mauritanica Duméril & Bibron in Guichenot, 1848: pl. 3 [nomen nudum]
- Vipera lebetina deserti Anderson, 1892: 20
- Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.18.28 (formerly BMNH 1891.5.4.150), ♀, collected by native between May–June 1890, presented by J. Anderson.
- Type locality: “Duirat, Tunisia”.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Gray, J.E. 1849. Catalogue of the specimens of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Edward Newman: London. i–xv + 1–125. BHL Reference page.
- Anderson, J. 1892. On a small collection of Mammals, Reptiles, and Batrachians from Barbary. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 60(1): 3–24. BHL Reference page.
- Martínez-Freiría, F., Crochet, P.-A., Fahd, S., Geniez, P., Brito, J.C. & Velo-Antón, G. 2017. Integrative phylogeographical and ecological analysis reveals multiple Pleistocene refugia for Mediterranean Daboia vipers in north-west Africa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 122(2): 366–384. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blx038 Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Daboia mauritanica. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 5 May 2019.
- Miras, J.A.M., Joger, U., Pleguezuelos, J. & Slimani, T. 2006. IUCN: Daboia mauritanica (Near Threatened). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T61494A12481914. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61494A12481914.en
Vernacular names
[edit]English: Moorish Viper
français: Vipère de l'Atlas