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- Common names: Siberian pit viper,<ref name="G&C90">Gloyd HK, Conant R. 1990. Snakes of the Agkistrodon Complex: A Monographic Review. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 614 pp. 52 plates. LCCN 89-50342. ISBN 0-916984-20-6.</ref> Halys viper,<ref name="Got">Gotch AF. 1986. Reptiles -- Their Latin Names Explained. Poole, UK: Blandford Press. 176 pp. ISBN 0-7137-1704-1.</ref> Halys pit viper,<ref name="Ste71">Steward JW. 1971. The Snakes of Europe. Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Press (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). 238 pp. LCCCN 77-163307. ISBN 0-8386-1023-4.</ref> more.
Gloydius halys is a venomous pitviper species found within a wide range that stretches across Asia, from Russia, east of the Urals, eastwards through China. Five subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominotypical form described here.<ref name="ITIS">Template:ITIS</ref>
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Description
Grows to a maximum total length of Template:Convert, which was for a female, with an included tail length of Template:Convert. The largest male on record measured Template:Convert in total length, which included a tail length of Template:Convert. The body build is described as moderately stout with a snout that is slightly upturned when viewed from the side.<ref name="G&C90"/>
Dorsally grayish, pale brown, reddish, or yellowish, with large dark spots or crossbars, the borders of which are serrated. One or two lateral series of smaller dark spots. A wide dark stripe behind the eye, bordered by light stripes both above and below. Ventrally whitish, speckled with gray or brown.
The strongly keeled dorsal scales are arranged in 23 rows at midbody. Ventrals 149-174; anal plate entire; subcaudals 31-44, divided (paired).<ref>Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the...Viperidæ. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). London. xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I.-XXV. (Ancistrodon halys, pp. 524-525.)</ref>
Common names
Siberian pit viper,<ref name="G&C90"/> Halys viper,<ref name="Got"/> Halys pit viper, Pallas' pit viper, Asiatic pit viper, Asiatic moccasin,<ref name="Ste71"/> shchitomordnik,<ref name="Bro73">Brown JH. 1973. Toxicology and Pharmacology of Venoms from Poisonous Snakes. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. 184 pp. LCCCN 73-229. ISBN 0-398-02808-7.</ref> Pallas' viper, Pallas pit viper, Korean pit viper, Mongolian pit viper.<ref name="USN91">U.S. Navy. 1991. Poisonous Snakes of the World. US Govt. New York: Dover Publications Inc. 203 pp. ISBN 0-486-26629-X.</ref>
Geographic range
Found in Russia, east of the Ural Mountains through Siberia, Iran, Mongolia to northern and central China, as well as the southern Ryukyu Islands of Japan. According to Gloyd and Conant (1990), the type locality given is "Salt Lake near the Lugaskoi Sawod (factory) on the Upper Yenisey" (Siberia, Russia). Redefined by Bour (1993) as "Naryn or Ryn Peski desert, near the Russia-Kazakhstan border."<ref name="McD99"/>
Subspecies
| Subspecies<ref name="ITIS"/> | Taxon author<ref name="ITIS"/> | Common name<ref name="Gum04">Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. Berlin: Geitje Books. 1st Edition. 368 pp. ISBN 3-937975-00-4.</ref> | Geographic range<ref name="McD99"/> |
|---|---|---|---|
| G. h. boehmei | Nilson, 1983 | Boehme's pitviper | Known only from the type locality: Andarab valley, province of Baghlan, at 2,500 m altitude, eastern Afghanistan.<ref name="Gum04"/> |
| G. h. caraganus | (Eichwald, 1831) | Karaganda pitviper | From southeastern Europe, in the Ural and Emba River valleys, and (at least formerly) in the Volga River valley, through much of Kazakhstan, including northern Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kirgistan, into northwestern China.<ref name="G&C90"/> |
| G. h. cognatus | (Gloyd, 1977) | Alashan pitviper | North-central China, from eastern Qinghai across southern Gansu, probably also in Qinghai, and possibly eastwards into Hebei and northwards into Inner Mongolia.<ref name="Gum04"/> |
| G. h. halys | (Pallas, 1776) | Siberian pitviper | Southern Siberia and Mongolia, from the Zeya River west to longitude 74° E.<ref name="G&C90"/> |
| G. h. mogoi | Bour, 1993 | Western Mongolia.<ref name="Gum04"/> |
See also
References
Further reading
- Pallas, P.S. 1776. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des russischen Reichs. Kais. Akad. Wiss. (Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften), St. Petersburg, Volume III. (Coluber halys, p. 703.)
