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Vipera nikolskii VEDMEDERYA, GRUBANT & RUDAJEWA, 1986

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Viperinae, Serpentes (snakes) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Nikolsky's Viper
G: Waldsteppen-Otter 
SynonymVipera nikolskii VEDMEDERYA, GRUBANT & RUDAJEWA 1986
Vipera berus (LINNAEUS 1756) (fide KHALIKOV, pers. comm.) (part.)
Vipera berus var. prester — KOWATSCHEFF 1905
Vipera prester (LINNAEUS 1761) (fide KHALIKOV, pers. comm.)
Vipera nikolskii — ENGELMANN et al 1993
Vipera berus nikolskii — JOGER et al. 1997
Vipera nikolskii — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 407
Vipera berus nikolskii — MILTO & ZINENKO 2005
Vipera (Pelias) nikolskii — VENCHI & SINDACO 2006
Vipera berus nikolskii — VEDMEDERYA et al. 2009
Vipera berus nikolskii — ZINENKO et al. 2010 
DistributionUkraine (vicinity of Kharkhov), Central and S Russia, Romania

Type locality: near the city of Kharkov, Ukraine Map legend:
TDWG region - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
 
TypesHolotype. MNKNU 14703.1 
CommentVenomous! Closely related to V. berus, maybe a subspecies (U. Joger in MCDIARMID et al. 1999).

JOGER et al. (2007) found that bosniensis, nikolskii, barani, sachalinensis nested within various populations of V. berus. 
References
  • Bozhansky,A.T. & V.F. Orlova. 1997. Data on the Distribution and Ecology of Vipera nikolskii. 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.: 27.
  • Engelmann,W.E. et al. 1993. Lurche und Kriechtiere Europas. Neumann Verlag (Radebeul, Germany), 440 pp.
  • Garrigues, Thomas; Catherine Dauga; Elisabeth Ferquel; Valérie Choumet and Anna-Bella Failloux 2005. Molecular phylogeny of Vipera Laurenti, 1768 and the related genera Macrovipera (Reuss, 1927) and Daboia (Gray, 1842), with comments about neurotoxic Vipera aspis aspis populations . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution <br />Volume 35 (1): 35-47 - get paper here
  • Gumprecht,A. 1994. Zur Kenntnis der Russischen Waldsteppenotter Vipera nikolskii Vedmederja, Grubant & Rudjeva, 1986. Sauria 16 (4): 27-33 - get paper here
  • Joger, U.; Fritz, U.; Guicking, D.; Kalyabina-Hauf, S.; Nagy, Z.T. & Wink, M. 2007. Phylogeography of western Palaearctic reptiles – Spatial and temporal speciation patterns. Zoologischer Anzeiger 246: 293–313 - get paper here
  • Joger,U., Lenk,P., Baran,I., Böhme,W., Ziegler,T., Heidrich,P. & M. Wink 1997. The phylogenetic position of Vipera barani and of Vipera nikolskii within the Vipera berus complex. In: Böhme,W. Bisschoff,W. & T. Ziegler (eds.) Herpetologia Bonnensis. Bonn: 185-194. - get paper here
  • Kowatscheff, V. 1905. Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Reptilien und Amphibienfauna Bulgariens. Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges., Wien, IV: 31-32
  • McDiarmid,R.W.; Campbell,J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Milto, K.D., Zinenko, O.I. 2005. Distribution and morphological variability of Vipera berus in eastern Europe. In: Herpetologia Petropolitana: Proceedings of 12th Ord. Gen. Meet. S.E.H., Ananyeva, N., Tsinenko, O., (Eds.) St. Petersburg – Moscow: 64 – 73
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  • Schweiger, M. 2009. Die Giftschlangen Europas. Eine Übersicht der Arten und Bemerkungen zu einzelnen Taxa. Reptilia (Münster) 14 (2): 14-25 - get paper here
  • SOS, T. & HEGYELI, Z. 2011. Morphotype of Vipera berus nikolskii VEDMEDERJA, GRUBANT & RUDAEVA, 1986, present in the Buzău Subcarpathians, Romania [Short Note] Herpetozoa 24: - get paper here
  • Vedmederja V I; Grubant V N 1986. On the question of the name of the black viper in the forest steppes of the European part of the USSR [in Russian]. VESTNIK KHAR'KOVSKOGO UNIVERSITETA (No. 288): 83-85
  • Vedmederya, Valeriy; Oleksandr Zinenko, and Andrei Barabanov 2009. An Annotated Type Catalogue of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Museum of Nature at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine). Russian Journal of Herpetology 16 (3): 203-212 - get paper here
  • Venchi, Alberto and Roberto Sindaco 2006. Annotated checklist of the reptiles of the Mediterranean countries, with keys to species identification. Part 2 -Snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "G. Doria", Genova, XCVIII: 259-364
  • Yefimov R.V.; Zavialov E.V.; Tabachishin V.G. 2008. Aspects of ecological segregation and technology of specific identification of viper snakes (Reptilia: Viperidae, Vipera) in Volga region by genotyping. Povolzhskiy Journal of Ecology 2008 (2):147-153
  • Yefimov, R. V., E. V. Zavialov, V. A. Velikov and V. G. Tabachishin. 2007. Preliminary data on genetic differentiation of the low-Bolga populations of forest-steppe viper (Vipera nikolskii, Viperidae) from sequenation of 12S genes of ribosomal RNA and cytochromoxidaze III. Current Studies in Herpetology 7(1/2):69-75
  • Zavialov, Evgeni V., E. I. Kaybeleva and Vasily G. Tabachishin 2006. A comparative karyologycal characteristics of forest-steppe viper Vipera (pelias) nikolskii from the small river flood-lands of the Volga and Don basins. Modern Herpetology 5/6:100-103.
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