Vipera kaznakovi

Vipera kaznakovi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Viperoidea

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

Name

Vipera kaznakovi Nikolsky, 1909

• Lectotype: NMG 4408, adult ♀, collected by Y.V. Voronov. [designated by Orlov & Tuniyev (1990: 6)]
• Type locality: “USSR, Georgien, Kreis Suchum, Cebelda, an der Ostküste des Schwarzen Meeres” via lectotype designation.

Combinations

• Vipera kaznakovi Nikolsky, 1909: 174 [original combination]
• Coluber kaznakowi — Nikolsky, 1916: 244 [subsequent combination]
• Pelias kaznakovi — Reuss, 1927 [subsequent combination]
• Vipera ursinii kaznakovi — Schwarz, 1936 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Vipera pontica Billing, Nilson & Sattler, 1990: 228
• Vipera magnifica Tuniyev & Ostrovskikh, 2001: 123

References

Primary references

• Nikolsky, A.M. 1909. Eine neue Vipern-Art aus dem Kaukasus: Vipera kaznakovi sp. nov. Mitteilungen des Kaukasischen Museums Tiflis 4: 173–174.
• Orlov, N.L. & Tuniyev, B.S. 1990. Three Species in the Vipera kaznakowi Complex (Eurosiberian Group) in the Caucasus: Their Present Distribution, Possile Genesis, and Phylogeny. Asiatic Herpetological Research 3: 1–36.
• Billing, H., Nilson, G. & Sattler, U. 1990. Vipera pontica sp.n., a new viper species in the kaznakovi group (Reptilia, Viperidae) from northeastern Turkey and adjacent Transcaucasia. Zoologica Scripta 19(2): 227–231. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1990.tb00257.x Reference page. 
• Tuniyev, B.S. & Ostrovskikh, S.V. 2001. Two New Species of Vipers of "kaznakovi" Complex (Ophidia, Viperinae) from the Western Caucasus. Russian Journal of Herpetology 8(2): 117–126. Reference page. 
• Zinenko, O., Sovic, M., Joger, U. & Gibbs, H.L. 2016. Hybrid origin of European Vipers (Vipera magnifica and Vipera orlovi) from the Caucasus determined using genomic scale DNA markers. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16: 76. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0647-7 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Freitas, I., Ursenbacher, S., Mebert, K., Zinenko, O., Schweiger, S., Wüster, W., Brito, J.C., Crnobrnja-Isailović, J., Halpern, B., Fahd, S., Santos, X., Pleguezuelos, J.M., Joger, U., Orlov, N., Mizsei, E., Lourdais, O., Zuffi, M.A.L., Strugariu, A., Zamfirescu, S.R., Martínez-Solano, I., Velo-Antón, G., Kaliontzopoulou, A. & Martínez-Freiría, F. 2020. Evaluating taxonomic inflation: towards evidence-based species delimitation in Eurasian vipers (Serpentes: Viperinae). Amphibia-Reptilia 41(3): 285–311. DOI: 10.1163/15685381-bja10007 Reference page. 

Links

• Tuniyev, B., Nilson, G., Agasyan, A., Orlov, N.L. & Tuniyev, S. 2009. IUCN: Vipera kaznakovi  (Endangered) (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T22990A114546825. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T22990A9405808.en. Accessed on 29 December 2025.

Vernacular names

• Deutsch: Kolchische Kaukasusotter
• English: Caucasus Viper
• polski: Żmija kaukaska
• Türkçe: Kafkas engereği