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Pseudocerastes fieldi SCHMIDT, 1930

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Viperinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Field's Horned Viper 
SynonymPseudocerastes fieldi SCHMIDT 1930: 227
Vipera persica fieldi MARX & RABB 1965
Pseudocerastes persicus fieldi ARNOLD & GALLAGHER 1977
Pseudocerastes persicus fieldi — HARDING & WELCH 1980
Pseudocerastes persicus fieldi — WELCH 1994: 103
Pseudocerastes persicus fieldi — LEHMANN 1982
Daboia persica fieldi — OBST 1983: 233
Pseudocerastes persicus fieldi — GASPERETTI 1988: 352
Pseudocerastes persicus fieldi — SINDACO et al. 2006
Pseudocerastes fieldi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 600
Pseudocerastes fieldi — MEIRI et al. 2019 
DistributionIsrael, Egypt, Sinai, Jordan, SW Iraq, SW Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria

Type locality: Ayn Bair, Jordan. “Transjordania, Bair Wells” according to MARX 1958.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: FMNH 11061 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A typical Pseudocerastes in having the rostral separated from the anterior nasal shield by small scales; scale covered horn-like projections over the eyes; lateral scales large and smooth; and ventrals not angulate. Distinguished from P. persicus Duméril and Bibron and from P. bicornis Wall by having only 21 rows of dorsal scales, two series of scales between the nasal and the rostral, and a lower number a of ventrals and subcaudals. (Schmidt 1930)


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CommentVenomous!

Distribution: A record from Lebanon (Harding and Welch 1980) must be disregarded. See Bar et al. 2021 for a map.

Considered as subspecies of P. persicus by Leviton et al. and other authors (Golay et al. 1993 etc.).

Probably the main external morphological difference between P. persicus and P. fieldi is that the scale rows of P. persicus are all strongly keeled, whereas in P. fieldi several lateral rows are nearly smooth and the outer rows are entirely without keels. Pseudocerastes fieldi also has a significantly shorter tail (after BOSTANCHI et al. 2006). 
Etymologynamed after Henry Field who collected the type on May 9, 1928. 
References
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