Ovophis anitae
Ovophis anitae David, Frétey & Vogel, 2024
Ovophis anitae, or the Pingbian mountain pitviper, is a species of mountain pit viper endemic to China and northern Vietnam. Like all pit vipers, it is venomous. Originally, O. anitae was named Ovophis malhotrae by Zeng et al. (2023), but was renamed as that name was unavailable. Both names are in honour of Dr. Anita Malhotra of Bangor University for her molecular biology work on Asian pitvipers.
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- China (Pingbian and Jinping, Yunnan) and Vietnam
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- Ovophis malhotrae Zeng, Li, Liu, Wu, Guo & Shi ex Zeng et al., 2023
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Descripción
Ovophis anitae is a wide, dark brown snake with a triangular head, ~6-6.5 meters long from snout to vent. It has a black marking on each side of its body, it is dark brown dorsally and on the sides of its head, with cream-orange stripes from its eyes towards its neck which contain light brown spots. Its tail shows small white spots on the dorsal side. The Pingbian mountain pitviper is distinguished from its relative species by various scale morphologies.
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Referencias
- 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.
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