Vipera latastei gaditana

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Vipera latastei gaditana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Subfamily: Viperinae
Genus: Vipera
Species: V. latastei
Subspecies: V. l. gaditana
Trinomial name
Vipera latastei gaditana
Saint-Girons, 1977
Synonyms
  • Vipera latastei gaditana - Saint-Girons, 1977[1]

Common names: (none).  
 
Vipera latastei gaditana is a venomous viper subspecies[2] found in southern Spain and Portugal, as well as in North Africa.[3]

Description

Holotype: MG 1352.99.[1]

Geographic range

According to Saint-Girons (1977), this race is found in southern Spain and Portugal, as well as North Africa.[3] McDiarmid et al. (1999) describe the north African part of the range as being the Mediterranean region of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The type locality is given as "Coto Doñana, Huelva, Egspagne."[1]

See also

Cited references

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. Vipera latastei gaditana (TSN 635260) at Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed 29 June 2007.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. 359 pp. ISBN 0-89464-877-2.

Other references

  • Saint-Girons H. 1977. Systématique de Vipera latastei latastei Bosca, 1878 et description de Vipera latastei gaditana, subsp. n. (Reptilia, Viperidae). Geneva: Revue Suisse de Zoologie 84:599-607

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