Gloydius shedaoensis (ZHAO, 1979)
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Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | Gloydius shedaoensis shedaoensis (ZHAO 1979) Gloydius shedaoensis qianshanensis LI 1999 |
Common Names | E: Shedao island pitviper Chinese: 蛇岛蝮 |
Synonym | Agkistrodon shedaoensis ZHAO 1979 Agkistrodon intermedius shedaoensis — WELCH 1994: 13 Agkistrodon shedaoensis — ORLOV & BARABANOV 1999 Gloydius shedaoensis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 308 Gloydius saxatilis shedaoensis — ZHOU et al. 2001 Gloydius shedaoensis — GUMPRECHT et al. 2004 Gloydius shedaoensis — LIVIGNI 2013: 414 Gloydius shedaoensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 311 Gloydius shedaoensis qianshanensis LI 1999 Gloydius shedaoensis qianshanensis — SHI et al. 2016 |
Distribution | China (Liaoning, Shedao Island) Type locality: Shedao Island = Snake Island, about 24 nautical miles from and to the north-west of Lüshun (Port Arther), Liaoning Province, elevation below 215 m. qianshanensis: China (Qianshan, Gaizhou, Wafangdian, Liaoning Province); Type locality: Qianshan, Liaoning Province, China. |
Reproduction | ovovivparous |
Types | Holotype: CIB 012816 (formerly 7910005), Male; Shedao, Liaoning Prov.; 5. 19, 1979. Neotype: SYNU900701, adult male; Original holotype: DLNM (?) = (Natural History Museum of Snake Island, Dalian) apparently lost fide Qiu et al. 2023. Paraneotypes: SYNU [qianshanensis] |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Total length up to 990 mm. Dorsal scales in 23 (rarely 24 or 25) rows at midbody; ven- trals 145 – 170; subcaudals 32 – 49; supralabials 7, rarely 8 [ORLOV & BARABANOV 1999]. |
Comment | Venomous! Conservation: one of the 30 most endangered viper species (Maritz et al. 2016). Types: the type specimens were lost during the relocation and expansion of the museum, including the holotype SB980563 collected from Qianshan Mountain, Anshan City, and paratypes collected from Longtanshan Mountain, Wafangdian City (interview to Jian-Li Li who described briefly and named this subspecies) (Qiu et al. 2023). |
Etymology | Named after the type locality. The subspecies qianshanensis is also named after the type locality, Qianshan Mountain, Liaoning Province, China. |
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