Ovophis anitae DAVID, FRETEY & VOGEL, 2024

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Ovophis malhotrae ZENG, LI, LIU, WU, GUO & SHI in ZENG et al. 2023: 6 Ovophis monticola — YANG & RAO 2008 Ovophis anitae — DAVID et al. 2024 (nomen novum)
Distribution	China (Pingbian and Jinping, Yunnan) and Vietnam Type locality: Pingbian Co., Yunnan, China
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: YBU 19103, adult femal, collected by Guanghui Zhong et al. in 2019
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Ovophis malhotrae sp. nov. can be distinguished from its congeners by having (1) 2nd supralabial separated from the loreal scale; (2) 3rd supralabial larger than 4th; (3) internasal scales separated by two small scales; (5) dorsal scales in 27-23-19 rows; (6) subcaudal scale count of 47, paired (Zeng et al. 2023).
Comment	Authorship: the correct author list is only provided in the supplementary files of Zeng et al. 2023. David et al. 2024 argued that the Zeng paper does not follow the Code and thus requires a new name.
References	David, Patrick; Thierry Frétey & Gernot Vogel 2024. The status of the nomen "Ovophis malhotrae" <br>(Squamata, Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae). Bionomina 38: 055–061 - get paper here Qiu X-C, Wang J-Z, Xia Z-Y, Jiang Z-W, Zeng Y, Wang N, Li P-P, Shi J-S 2024. A new mountain pitviper of the genus Ovophis Burger in Hoge & Romano-Hoge, 1981 (Serpentes, Viperidae) from Yunnan, China. ZooKeys 1203: 173-187 - get paper here Yang DT, Rao DQ. 2008. Amphibia and Reptilia of Yunnan. Kunming: Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation, 1-411. (in Chinese) Zeng, Y.-M., Li, K., Liu, Q., Wu, Y.-Y., Hou, S.-B., Zhao, G.-G., Nguyen, S N., Guo, P., & Shi, L. 2023. New insights into the phylogeny and evolution of Chinese Ovophis (Serpentes, Viperidae): Inferred from multilocus data. Zoologica Scripta, 52, 358– 369 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://zoobank.org/Urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:1DF84440-D406-4B3D-925D… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/726048512953083/ Google images

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