Gloydius brevicaudus (STEJNEGER, 1907)
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Higher Taxa | Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | Gloydius brevicaudus brevicaudus (STEJNEGER 1907) Gloydius brevicaudus siniticus (GLOYD 1977) |
Common Names | G: Kurzschwanz-Mamushi Chinese: 短尾蝮 |
Synonym | Agkistrodon blomhoffii brevicaudus STEJNEGER 1907: 463 Ancistrodon halys brevicaudus NIKOLSKY 1916 Ancistrodon halys brevicaudus — RENDAHL 1933: 21 Ancistrodon halys brevicaudus — SHANNON 1956 Gloydius blomhoffii brevicaudus — HOGE & ROMANO-HOGE 1981: 195 Agkistrodon blomhoffii brevicaudus — WELCH 1994: 11 Agkistrodon blomhoffii dubitatus GLOYD 1977 Agkistrodon blomhoffii brevicaudus — TRUTNAU 2002 Gloydius brevicaudus — ZHOU et al. 2001 Gloydius brevicaudus — WANG & ZHAO 2007 Gloydius brevicaudus — GAULKE 2008 Gloydius brevicaudus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 310 Gloydius brevicaudus — ORLOV et al. 2014 Gloydius brevicaudus brevicaudus — DAVID & VOGEL 2015 Gloydius brevicaudus siniticus (GLOYD 1977) Agkistrodon blomhoffii siniticus GLOYD 1977 Gloydius blomhoffii siniticus — HOGE & ROMANO-HOGE 1981 [1979] Gloydius blomhoffii siniticus — ORLOV & BARABANOV 1999 Gloydius blomhoffii siniticus — GUMPRECHT et al. 2004 Gloydius brevicaudus siniticus — WANG & ZHAO 2007 Gloydius blomhoffii siniticus — ORLOV et al. 2014 Gloydius brevicaudus siniticus — DAVID & VOGEL 2015 |
Distribution | North Korea, South Korea, China (Liaoning, Jilin, Guangdong: HR 33: 226); Russia (Pozharsky District, Primorsky Krai) [iNaturalist] Type locality: Fusan = (Pusan), S. Korea. siniticus: China (Yangtze River basin from E Sichuan to the delta; north to Anhwei, Kiangsu and Shantung; south into N Hunan and Kiangsi). Type locality: Ningkwo (= Ningguo Co.), Anhwei (= Anhui) Province, China. |
Reproduction | viviparous |
Types | Holotype: USNM 17507 Holotype: AMNH 25554 [siniticus] |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Venomous! Synonymy: G. blomhoffi dubitatus was listed as a synonym of G. blomhoffi by McDiarmid et al. 1999 but as a synonym of G. brevicaudus by Zhao and Adler (1993), David and Ineich (1999), and Orlov et al. 2014. Some of these authors also consider A. b. siniticus to be a junior synonym of Gloydius brevicaudus although it has been listed as valid more recenlty. Distribution: see map in ORLOV & BARABANOV 1999. G. b. brevicaudus and G. b. siniticus are allopatric with a large gap in between their reanges. |
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