Ovophis anitae DAVID, FRÉTEY & VOGEL, 2024

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Higher Taxa	Viperidae, Crotalinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
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Common Names
Synonym	Ovophis malhotrae ZENG, LI, LIU, WU, GUO & SHI in ZENG et al. 2023: 6 Ovophis monticola — YANG & RAO 2008 Ovophis anitae — DAVID et al. 2024 (nomen novum)
Distribution	China (Pingbian and Jinping, Yunnan) and Vietnam Type locality: Pingbian Co., Yunnan, China
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: YBU 19103, adult femal, collected by Guanghui Zhong et al. in 2019
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Ovophis malhotrae sp. nov. can be distinguished from its congeners by having (1) 2nd supralabial separated from the loreal scale; (2) 3rd supralabial larger than 4th; (3) internasal scales separated by two small scales; (5) dorsal scales in 27-23-19 rows; (6) subcaudal scale count of 47, paired (Zeng et al. 2023). Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 2100 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Authorship: the correct author list is only provided in the supplementary files of Zeng et al. 2023. David et al. 2024 argued that the Zeng paper does not follow the Code and thus requires a new name.
Etymology	The new species is named after Dr. Anita Malhotra from Bangor University, UK in recognition of her great contribution to the molecular systematics and morphological evolution of Asian pitvipers.
References	David, Patrick; Thierry Frétey & Gernot Vogel 2024. The status of the nomen "Ovophis malhotrae" (Squamata, Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae). Bionomina 38: 055–061 - get paper here Liu S, Hou M, Mo M, Li M, Li B, Luo X, Rao D, Li S 2025. A new species of the genus Ovophis Burger in Hoge & Romano-Hoge, 1981 (Serpentes, Viperidae) from southern Yunnan, China. ZooKeys 1230: 287-302 - get paper here Qiu X-C, Wang J-Z, Xia Z-Y, Jiang Z-W, Zeng Y, Wang N, Li P-P, Shi J-S 2024. A new mountain pitviper of the genus Ovophis Burger in Hoge & Romano-Hoge, 1981 (Serpentes, Viperidae) from Yunnan, China. ZooKeys 1203: 173-187 - get paper here Yang DT, Rao DQ. 2008. Amphibia and Reptilia of Yunnan. Kunming: Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation, 1-411. (in Chinese) Zeng, Y.-M., Li, K., Liu, Q., Wu, Y.-Y., Hou, S.-B., Zhao, G.-G., Nguyen, S N., Guo, P., & Shi, L. 2023. New insights into the phylogeny and evolution of Chinese Ovophis (Serpentes, Viperidae): Inferred from multilocus data. Zoologica Scripta, 52, 358– 369 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://zoobank.org/Urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:1DF84440-D406-4B3D-925D… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/726048512953083/ Google images

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