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Ovophis anitae
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Ovophis anitae

Ovophis anitae David, Frétey & Vogel, 2024

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 (Pingbian and Jinping, Yunnan) and Vietnam
Also published as
Ovophis malhotrae Zeng, Li, Liu, Wu, Guo & Shi ex Zeng et al., 2023
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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

  • Yang DT, Rao DQ. (2008). Amphibia and Reptilia of Yunnan. Kunming: Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation, 1-411. (In Chinese).
  • David, Patrick; Thierry Frétey & Gernot Vogel. (2024). The status of the nomen “Ovophis malhotrae” (Squamata, Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae). Bionomina 38: 055–061.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.