COL·VNXN8speciesThe Nature Library · Catalogue of Life, 2026

Gloydius hazarensis — (c) Mudassar Basri, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mudassar Basri · iNaturalist. 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.

(c) Mudassar Basri, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mudassar Basri · iNaturalist. 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.

Hazara Pitviper

Gloydius hazarensis Jablonski, Tillack, Tillack, Petzold, Wilzo, Das, Idrees, Baniya, Masroor & Hofmann, 2026

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: N Pakistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Punjab Province, Jammu and Kashmir) (Jablonski et al. 2026, Blanford 1878; Unwin in Lawrence 1895; Fenton 1910; Telford 1980; Khan and Tasnim 1986; Gloyd and Conant 1990; Showler 1998; Masroor 2017; Shabir 2022; Hadi and Junaid 2024)

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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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In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Gloydius hazarensis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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References

Jablonski D, Tillack F, Mahlow-Tillack K, Petzold A, Wilzo M, Das A, Idrees M, Baniya CB, Masroor R, & Hofmann S. (2026). Integrative taxonomy reveals previously undescribed diversity within the Gloydius himalayanus complex (Squamata, Viperidae, Crotalinae) from the Himalaya and Hindu Kush. ZooKeys 1280: 83-153.

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