Vipera eriwanensis

Vipera eriwanensis — distribution map

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea

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

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Viperinae
Genus: Vipera
Species: Vipera eriwanensis

Name

Vipera eriwanensis (Reuss, 1933)

• Holotype: ZMB 55160, ♂, collected by Ramme & Richter on 2 September 1929.
• Type locality: “Lake Sevan above Shordzha at 2000 m a.s.l. [Yerevan], Armenia” fide Krecsák (2007: 658).

Combinations

• Acridophaga renardi eriwanensis Reuss, 1933: 373 [original combination]
• Vipera ursini eriwanensis — Joger, 1984 [subsequent combination]
• Vipera eriwanensis — Höggren, Nilson, Andrén, Orlov & Tuniyev, 1993 [subsequent combination]
• Vipera renardi eriwanensis — Joger & Dely, 2005 [subsequent combination]
• Pelias eriwanensis — Tuniyev, Avci, Tuniyev, Agasian & Agasian, 2012 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Reuss, T. 1933. Fortsetzung und Schluss der Originalberichte. Nachr. Bl. Aquar. Terrar.-Ver. 1933: 372–373.

Additional references

• Kramer, E. 1961. Variation, Sexualdimorphismus, Wachstum und Taxonomie von Vipera ursinii (Bonaparte, 1835) und Vipera kaznakovi Nikolskij, 1909. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 68(4): 627–725.
• Joger, U. 1984. The venomous snakes of the Near and Middle East. Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, A 12. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden.
• Nilson, G., Andren, C., and B. Flärdh, 1988. Die Vipern der Türkei. Salamandra 24(4): 215–247.
• Engelmann, W.E., Fritzsche, J., Günther, R. and F. J. Obst, 1993. Lurche und Kriechtiere Europas. Neumann Verlag (Radebeul, Germany), 440 pp.
• Höggren, M., Nilson, G., Andrén, C., Orlov, N. L. and B. S. Tuniyev, 1993. Vipers of the Caucasus: Natural history and systematic review. Herpetological Natural History 1(2): 11–19.
• Nilson, G., Tuniyev, B., Andrén, C. and N. Orlov, 1999. Vipers of Caucasus: Taxonomic considerations. Kaupia (8): 103–106.
• McDiarmid, R.W., Campbell, J.A. & Touré, T.A. 1999. Snake Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Volume 1. Herpetologists’ League: Washington, Dictrict of Columbia. 511 pp. ISBN 9781893777002 Reference page. 
• Zinenko, O., Stümpel, N., Mazanaeva, L., Bakiev, A., Shiryaev, K., Pavlov, A., Kotenko, T., Kukushkin, O., Chikin, Y., Duisebayeva, T., Nilson, G., Orlov, N.L., Tuniyev, S., Ananjeva, N.B., Murphy, R.W. & Joger, U. 2015. Mitochondrial phylogeny shows multiple independent ecological transitions and northern dispersion despite of Pleistocene glaciations in meadow and steppe vipers (Vipera ursinii and Vipera renardi). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 85–100. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.12.005 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Vipera eriwanensis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 20 June 2023.
• Tuniyev, B., Nilson, G., Agasyan, A., Orlov, N.L. & Tuniyev, S. 2009. IUCN: Vipera eriwanensis  (Vulnerable) (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164679A114547682. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T164679A5917380.en. Accessed on 20 June 2023.

Vernacular names

English: Armenian Steppe Viper