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Ovophis jenkinsi
Xian-Chun Qiu, Jin-Ze Wang, Zu-Yao Xia, Zhong-Wen Jiang, Yan Zeng, Nan Wang, Pi-Peng Li, J (CC BY 4.0) · Wikimedia Commons. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Jenkins’ mountain pitviper

Ovophis jenkinsi Qiu, Wang, Xia, Jiang, Zeng, Wang, LI & Shi, 2024

Also called盈江烙铁头蛇 (yíng jiāng lào tiě tóu shé) (zho)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
China (Yunnan), India (fide P. David, pers. comm.)
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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References

  • 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.
  • LIAO, Linghong; Shi Shengchao, Luo Zhonghao, et al. (2026). A New Species of the Genus Ovophis Burger in Hoge & Romano-Hoge, 1981 (Serpentes, Viperidae) from Xizang, China. Asian Herpetological Research.
  • 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.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.