Montivipera albizona

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Viperoidea

Montivipera albizona (Nilson, Andrén & Flärdh, 1990)

Holotype: GNM Re.ex.5022, young ♀, collected by G. Nilson on 2 June 1989.
Type locality: “regions of the Kulmac Daglari mountain range, central Turkey, close to the Anatolian "Diagonal"”.

Vipera albizona Nilson, Andrén & Flärdh, 1990: 287 [original combination]
Montivipera albizona — Garrigues, Dauga, Ferquel, Choumet & Failloux, 2005 [subsequent combination]

Nilson, G., Andrén, C. & Flärdh, B. 1990. Vipera albizona, a new mountain viper from central Turkey, with comments on isolating effects of the Anatolian "Diagonal". Amphibia-Reptilia 11(3): 285–294. DOI: 10.1163/156853890X00203 Reference page.
Garrigues, T., Dauga, C., Ferquel, E., Choumet, V. & Failloux, A.–B. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of Vipera Laurenti, 1768 and the related genera Macrovipera (Reuss, 1927) and Daboia (Gray, 1842), with comments about neurotoxic Vipera aspis aspis populations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35(1): 35–47. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.004 Reference page.

Tok, V., Ugurtas, I., Sevinç, M., Böhme, W., Crochet, P.-A., Kaska, Y., Kumlutaş, Y., Kaya, U., Avci, A., Üzüm, N., Yeniyurt, C. & Akarsu, F. 2009. IUCN: Montivipera albizona (Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T22985A9405430. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T22985A9405430.en. Accessed on 30 December 2023.

English: Mountain Viper