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Gloydius strauchi (BEDRIAGA, 1912)

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Strauch’s pitviper
Chinese: 高原蝮 
SynonymAncistrodon strauchi BEDRIAGA 1912: 728
Agkistrodon tibetanus BARBOUR 1912: 133
Agkistrodon strauchi — STEJNEGER 1925
Agkistrodon strauchi — STEJNEGER 1926: 98
Ancistrodon halys strauchi — PAVLOV 1932: 24
Ancistrodon halys strauchi — RENDAHL 1933: 21
Agkistrodon strauchi — WELCH 1994: 13
Gloydius strauchi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 308
Gloydius strauchi — GUMPRECHT et al. 2004
Gloydius strauchi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 311 
DistributionChina (E Xizang = Tibet and Qinghai east to Ningxia and S Shaanxi), NW Sichuan)

Type locality: Daudsen-Lu (=Ta-Tsian-Lu), Sichuan Province, China (designated by ORLOV & BARABANOV 2000)  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesSyntypes: ZISP (ZIL) 7046 (Dytschu), ZIL 8533 (Tung-o-Io), and ZIL 8534.
Holotype: MCZ 7327 [strauchi] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2852 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Synonymy: Agkistrodon halys qinlingensis SONG & CHEN 1985 has been removed from the synonymy of G. strauchi by Shi et al. 2017 and several previous authors.

Distribution: for a map of localities see Shi et al. 2021: 102 (Fig. 6) 
EtymologyNamed after Alexander Strauch (1832-1893), Russian zoologist. 
References
  • Barbour, Thomas 1912. Some Chinese Vertebrates: Amphibia and Reptilia. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy 40 (4): 125-136 - get paper here
  • Bedriaga, J.V. 1909. Amphibien und Reptilien. In: Wissenschaftliche Resultate der Reisen N.M. Przewalskijs durch Zentralasien. Zoologische Teil. Band 3. Part 1. Lacertilia. (in Russian). Sankt-Petersburg, Vol 3 (1) 3: 73-102, 367 - 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
  • David, P. & Vogel, G. 2015. An updated list of Asian pitvipers and a selection of recent publications, in: Visser: Asian Pitvipers. Breeding Experience & Wildlife. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, 571pp. ISBN 978-3-89973-450-8 - get paper here
  • Gumprecht, A.; Tillack, F.; Orlov, N.L.; Captain, A. & Ryabow, S. 2004. Asian pitvipers. Geitje Books, Berlin, 368 pp.
  • Guo, P.; Zhang, F.J. & Chen, Y.Y. 1999. The Hemipenes of Chinese Species of Deinagkistrodon and Gloydius (Serpentes: Crotaiinae). Asiatic Herpetological Research 8: 38-42 - get paper here
  • Hofmann, Sylvia 2020. A New Record of Gloydius strauchi (Viperidae, Crotalinae) from Dêgê County, NW Sichuan, China and symptoms of that species’ bite. Russian Journal of Herpetology 27 (2): 113-122 - get paper here
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Orlov, Nicolai L. and Andrei V. Barabanov 2000. About type localities for some species of the genus Gloydius Hoge et Romano-Hoge, 1981 (Crotalinae: Viperidae: Serpentes). Russ. J. Herpetol. 7 (2): 159-160 - get paper here
  • Parkinson,C.L. 1999. Molecular systematics and biogeographical history of pitvipers as determined by mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences. Copeia 1999 (3): 576-586 - get paper here
  • Pavlov, Peter A. 1932. The Manchurian Reptilia and Amphibia ba~d upon collections stored in the M.R.S. Museum. Misc. Pap. Manchuria Res. Soc., Nat. Hist. Sect., Harbin, ser. A, 13: (1), 1-22 [1926]
  • Rendahl, Hialmar 1933. Die Unterarten des Ancistrodon halys Pall. nebst elnigen Bemerkungen zur Herpetologie Zentralasiens. Arkiv för Zoologi 25 (8): 1-31
  • Shi J-S, Liu J-C, Giri R, Owens JB, Santra V, Kuttalam S, Selvan M, Guo K-J, Malhotra A 2021. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the genus Gloydius (Squamata, Viperidae, Crotalinae), with description of two new alpine species from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. ZooKeys 1061: 87-108 - get paper here
  • Shi, Jingsong; Diancheng Yang, Wuyuan Zhang, Lifang Peng, Nikolai L. Orlov, Fan Jiang, Li Ding, Mian Hou, Xinlei Huang, Song Huang, Pipeng Li 2018. A New Species of the Gloydius strauchi Complex (Crotalinae: Viperidae: Serpentes) from Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu, China. Russ. J. Herpetol. 25 (2): 126-138 - get paper here
  • Shi, Jingsong; Gang Wang; Xi’er Chen; Yihao Fang; Li Ding; Song Huang; Mian Hou, Jun Liu, and Pipeng Li 2017. A new moth-preying alpine pit viper species from Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (Viperidae, Crotalinae). Amphibia-Reptilia, 38 (4): 517 – 532;<br>DOI: 10.1163/15685381-00003134 - get paper here
  • Song,M.T. & Chen, F.G. 1985. A new subspecies of pit-viper from Mt. Qin Ling. Anim. Mondo 2: 99-103
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  • Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Wenjie Dong, Ke Jiang, Jingsong Shi, Cameron D. Siler and Jing Che 2019. A New Species of Plateau Pit Viper (Reptilia: Serpentes: Gloydius) from the Upper Lancang (= Mekong) Valley in the Hengduan Mountain Region, Tibet, China. Journal of Herpetology 53 (1): 224-236 - get paper here
  • Wang, Xiang-jun; Zhao, Er-mi. 2006. A preliminary taxonomic status of Gloydius qinlingensis and G. liupanensis. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 25 (2):210-213. [In Chinese]
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