Gloydius tsushimaensis (ISOGAWA, MORIYA & MITSUI, 1994)
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Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | E: Tsushima island pitviper Japanese: Tsushima Mamushi |
Synonym | Agkistrodon tsushiamensis ISOGAWA, MORIYA & MITSUI 1994 Gloydius tsushimaensis — GUMPRECHT et al. 2004 Gloydius tsushimaensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 312 Gloydius tsushimaensis — ORLOV et al. 2014 |
Distribution | Japan (Tsushima Island)
Type locality: Yora-Naiin, Izuhara-cho, Shimoagata-gun, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.
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Reproduction | ovovivparous |
Types | Holotype: OMNH (Osaka) R3934, a 563 mm male (YMS Research team, 28 July 1987). |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Venomous!
Not listed in MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999. |
Etymology | Named after the type locality. |
References |
- Goris, R.C. & Maeda, N. 2004. Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Japan. Krieger, Malabar, 285 pp.
- Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A. & Ryabow, S. 2004. Asian pitvipers. Geitje Books, Berlin, 368 pp.
- Isogawa, K., Moriya, A. & Mitsui, S. 1994. A new snake from the genus Agkistrodon (Serpentes: Viperidae) from Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture. Japanese Journal of Herpetology 15:101-111. - get paper here
- Orlov, Nikolai L. and Andrei V. Barabanov. 1999. Analysis of nomenclature, classification, and distribution of the Agkistrodon halys - Agkistrodon intermedius complexes: a critical review. Russ. J. Herpetol. 6 (3): 167-192 - get paper here
- Orlov, Nikolai L.; Yuri Sundukov, Ivan Kropachev 2014. Distribution of Pitvipers of «Gloydius blomhoffii» Complex in Russia with the First Records of Gloydius blomhoffii blomhoffii at Kunashir Island (Kuril Archipelago, Russian Far East). Russ. J. Herpetol. 21 (3): 169-178 - get paper here
- 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.
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