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Montivipera latifii (MERTENS, DAREVSKY & KLEMMER, 1967)

IUCN Red List - Montivipera latifii - Endangered, EN
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Higher TaxaViperidae, Viperinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Latifi's Viper 
SynonymVipera latifii MERTENS, DAREVSKY & KLEMMER 1967
Daboia (Daboia) raddei latifii — OBST 1983: 233
Vipera raddei latifii — GOLAY et al. 1993
Vipera latifii — WELCH 1994: 121
Vipera (Montivipera) latifii — NILSON et al. 1999: 101
Vipera latifii — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 406
Montivipera latifii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 459
Montivipera latifi — KAMALI 2020 
DistributionIran (Tehran Province: Alborz Mountains)

Type locality: Hochtal von Lar (2180-2900 m elevation), süd-westliche des Demavend-Gipfels im Elburs-Gebirge, nordöstlich von Teheran, Iran.  
Reproduction(ovo-) viparous. 
TypesHolotype: SMF 62585 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “Eine ziemlich schlanke, bis 75 cm lange Art der Gattung Vipera, mit raddei am nächsten verwandt und wie diese durch einen geschlossenen Schuppenting um das Auge gekennzeichnet. Die Zahl der Ventralia jedoch gering (156-169 statt 168-185), die Grundfarbe hellgraubraun und die Rückenzeichnung, die auch völlig fehlen kann, aus einem dunklen, aber verloschenen Flecken- oder Zickzackband oder einer schmalen Vertebrallinie bestehend.” (Mertens et al. 1967)


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CommentVenomous!

Distribution: For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013. 
EtymologyNamed after the collector of the type, Dr. M. Latifi. 
References
  • Andren, C. and Nilson, G. 1979. Vipera latifii (Reptilia, Serpentes, Viperidae) an endangered viper from Lar Valley, Iran, and remarks on the sympatric herpetofauna. Journal of Herpetology 13 (3): 335-341 - get paper here
  • Behrooz, Roozbeh; Mohammad Kaboli, Véronique Arnal, Masoud Nazarizadeh, Atefeh Asadi, Amin Salmanian, Mohsen Ahmadi, Claudine Montgelard; 2018. Conservation Below The Species Level: Suitable Evolutionarily Significant Units Among Mountain Vipers (The Montivipera Raddei Complex) in Iran. Journal of Heredity, esy005, - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • HASSANIAN-MOGHADDAM, HOSSEIN; SEYED MOSTAFA MONZAVI, FARSHAD MAZDA SHIRAZI, DAVID A. WARRELL & OMID MEHRPOUR. 2022. First report of a confirmed case of Montivipera latifii (Latifi’s viper) envenoming and a literature review of envenoming by Montivipera species. Toxicon 207: 48–51. - get paper here
  • Hromadka, J. 1979. Vipera latifii a new species of snake. Ziva 27 (1): 26-27
  • Joger,U. & M. Meder. 1997. Taxonomic Resolution of the Vipera xanthina Complex. In: Herpetology '97, Abstracts of the Third World Congress of Herpetology 2-10 August 1997 Prague, Czech Republic, Rocek,Z. & S. Hart (eds.), 244 p.:106.
  • Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp.
  • Mallow, D. Ludwig, D. & Nilson, G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Krieger, Malabar, Florida, 410 pp. [review in HR 35: 200, Reptilia 35: 74]
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Mertens, R., Darevsky,I.S. & K. Klemmer. 1967. Vipera latifii, eine neue Giftschlange aus dem Iran. Senckenbergiana biologica 48 (3): 161-168.
  • Nilson G; Andren C 1986. The mountain vipers of the Middle East - the Vipera xanthina complex (Reptilia: Viperidae). Bonner Zool. Monogr. 20: 1-90 - get paper here
  • Nilson,G.; TUNIYEV,B.; ANDRÉN,C.; ORLOV,N.; JOGER,U. & HERRMANN,H. W. 1999. Taxonomic position of the Vipera xanthina complex. Kaupia (Darmstadt) (8): 99-102
  • Obst, F.J. 1983. Zur Kenntnis der Schlangengattung Vipera. Zool. Abh. staatl. Mus. Tierkunde Dresden 38: 229-235
  • Rajabizadeh, M. 2018. Snakes of Iran. [in Farsi] Tehran: Iranshenasi, 496 pp. [2017 ?] - get paper here
  • Rajabizadeh, Mahdi; Dominique Adriaens, Mohammad Kaboli, Jaleh Sarafraz, Mohsen Ahmadi 2015. Dorsal colour pattern variation in Eurasian mountain vipers (genus Montivipera): A trade-off between thermoregulation and crypsis. Zoologischer Anzeiger 257: 1–9; doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2015.03.006 - get paper here
  • Rajabizadeh, Mehdi; Ali Yazdanpanah, Sylvain Ursenbacher 2012. Preliminary analysis of dorsal pattern variation and sexual dimorphism in Montivipera latifii (Mertens, Darevsky and Klemmer, 1967) (Ophidia: Viperidae). Acta Herpetologica 7 (1): 13-21 - get paper here
  • Rajabizadeh, Mehdi; Göran Nilson, and Haji Gholi Kami 2011. A New Species of Mountain Viper (Ophidia: Viperidae) from the Central Zagros Mountains, Iran. Russ. J. Herpetol. 18 (3): 235 – 240 - get paper here
  • RASTEGAR-POUYANI, NASRULLAH; HAJI GHOLI KAMI, MEHDI RAJABZADEH, SOHEILA SHAFIEI AND STEVEN CLEMENT ANDERSON 2008. Annotated Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 4 (1): 7-30
  • Sindaco, R.; Alberto Venchi & Cristina Grieco 2013. The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic, Volume 2: Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Snakes of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia, with an Update to Volume 1. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 543 pp. - get paper here
  • Stümpel, Nikolaus; Mehdi Rajabizadeh, Aziz Avcı, Wolfgang Wüster, Ulrich Joger 2016. Phylogeny and diversification of mountain vipers (Montivipera, Nilson et al. 2001) triggered by multiple Plio-Pleistocene refugia and high-mountain topography in the Near and Middle East. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.025 - 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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