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Montivipera wagneri (NILSON & ANDRÉN, 1984)

IUCN Red List - Montivipera wagneri - Critically Endangered, CR
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Higher TaxaViperidae, Viperinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Wagner's Viper
G: Wagners Bergotter 
SynonymVipera wagneri NILSON & ANDRÉN 1984
Vipera wagneri — WELCH 1994: 123
Viperus [sic] wagneri — MATTISON 1995: 244
Vipera (Montivipera) wagneri — NILSON et al. 1999: 101
Vipera wagneri — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 412
Vipera wagneri — SCHMIDT & KUNZ 2005: 66
Montivipera wagneri — GARRIGUES et al. 2005
Vipera (Montivipera) wagneri — VENCHI & SINDACO 2006
Montivipera wagneri — ARIKAN et al. 2008
Vipera (Montivipera) wagneri — GRUBER 2009
Montivipera wagneri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 459
Montivipera wagneri — AHMADI et al. 2024 
DistributionE Turkey (E Anatolia), NW Iran

Type locality: Vicinity of lake Urmia, near border, Azerbaijan province, NW Iran.  
Reproduction(ovo-) viparous. Experimental hybridizations between M. wagneri and M. xanthina result in fertile offspring (Stümpel et al. 2016). 
TypesHolotype: ZFMK 32495 (erroneously given as 23495 in original description). (The caption for figure 1 on p. 178, in error cited ZFMK 32495 as the holotype.) 
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CommentVenomous!

Distribution: not in Armenia fide Jeff Ettling (pers. comm., 2 April 2015). For a map with localities in Turkey see Mebert et al. 2020: 172 (Fig. 2) and 180 (Fig. 11). For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013.

Conservation: one of the 30 most endangered viper species (Maritz et al. 2016). 
EtymologyNamed after Moritz Wagner, who collected the type in 1846. 
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