Gloydius changdaoensis LI, 1999

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	Chinese: 庙岛蝮
Synonym	Gloydius saxatilis changdaoensis LI 1999 Gloydius lijianlii JIANG & ZHAO 2009 Gloydius lijianlii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 311 Gloydius changdaoensis — SHI et al. 20216 Gloydius changdaoensis — ASADI et al. 2019
Distribution	China (Daheishan Is., Changdao County; Zifu Peninsula and Jia Is., Yantai City, Shandong Province) Type locality: Daheishan Island, Changdao County, Shandong Province, China. lijianlii (invalid): China (N coast Shandong peninsula); Type locality: Daheishan Island (37°58'N, 121°35'E; elevation 174 m
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: DLNM (?), Natural History Museum of Snake Island, Dalian. Holotype: CIB 095886 [lijianlii]
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: This new subspecies has less ventrals (148-158, mean 153.11) and less counts of ventrals plus subcaudals (188-201, mean 194.03) than those of the nominate subspecies [saxatilis]. (Li 1999)
Comment	Conservation: one of the 30 most endangered viper species (Maritz et al. 2016). Synonymy: Simonov et al. 2017 suggested (in an SEH conference abstract) to synonymize Gloydius lijianlii with G. changdaoensis, which was reiterated by Asadi et al. 2019 (without further support). Hence the validity of Gloydius lijianlii is uncertain at this point.
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Asadi, Atefeh; Claudine Montgelard, Masoud Nazarizadeh, Akram Moghaddasi,<br>Faezeh Fatemizadeh, Evgeniy Simonov, Haji Gholi Kami & Mohammad Kaboli 2019. Evolutionary history and postglacial colonization of an Asian pit viper (Gloydius halys caucasicus) into transcaucasia revealed by phylogenetic and phylogeographic analyses. Scientific Reports 9:1224 - get paper here Jiang & Zhao 2009. Gloydius lijianlii, a new species from the northern coastal islands along Shandong peninsula (Reptilia, Squamata, Viperidae). [in Chinese]. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 34(3): 642-646 - get paper here Li, J.L. 1999. Infraspecific classification of two species of Gloydius (Serpentes: Crotalinae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 24(4), Oct 1999:454-460 Maritz, Bryan; Johannes Penner, Marcio Martins, Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailović, Stephen Spear, Laura R.V. Alencar, Jesús Sigala-Rodriguez, Kevin Messenger, Rulon W. Clark, Pritpal Soorae, Luca Luiselli, Chris Jenkins, Harry W. Greene 2016. Identifying global priorities for the conservation of vipers. Biological Conservation, doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.05.004 - get paper here Shi, J., Yang, D., Zhang, W. & Ding, L. 2016. Distribution and infraspecies taxonomy of Gloydius halys-Gloydius intermedius complex in China (Serpentes: Crotalinae). Chinese J. Zool. 51: 777–798 Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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