Ovophis
| Ovophis | |
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| Ovophis monticola | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Viperidae |
| Subfamily: | Crotalinae |
| Genus: | Ovophis Burger, 1981 |
| Synonyms | |
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- Common names: mountain pit vipers.
Ovophis is a
Geographic range
Found in Asia in Nepal and
Species
| Species[2] | Taxon author[2] | Subsp.*[2] | Common name | Geographic range[1] |
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| O. convictus | (Stolickza, 1870) | 0 | Indo-Malayan mountain pitviper | Sumatra, Cambodia; Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. |
| O. makazayazaya | (Takahashi, 1922) | 0 | Taiwan mountain pitviper | South-eastern China, Taiwan, and northern Vietnam. |
| O. malhotrae | Zeng, Li, Liu, Wu,-Y., Hou, Zhao, Nguyen, Guo, & Shi, 2023 | 0 | China and Vietnam. | |
| O. monticolaT | ( Günther , 1864)
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2 | Chinese Mountain pit viper | Nepal, India ( West Malaysia, and Sumatra in Indonesia.
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| O. okinavensis | (Boulenger, 1892) | 0 | Okinawa pit viper | Okinawa and the Amami Islands ).
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O. tonkinensis
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(Bourret, 1934) | 0 | Tonkin pit viper | Vietnam and China. |
| O. zayuensis | (Jiang, 1977) | 0 | Zayuan mountain pit viper | China. |
*) Not including the nominate subspecies.
T) Type species.[1]
Taxonomy
Species placed in this group have long been associated with the genus Trimeresurus.[1] One other species that is included in some other taxonomies is O. tonkinensis (Bourret, 1934). It is commonly called the Tonkin pit viper and is found in Vietnam and China.
References
- ^ ISBN 1-893777-01-4(volume).
- ^ a b c d "Ovophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 4 November 2006.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ovophis.
- Ovophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 December 2007.