Biology:Ovophis anitae
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Viperidae |
| Genus: | Ovophis |
| Species: | O. anitae
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| Binomial name | |
| Ovophis anitae David, Frétey & Vogel, 2024
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Ovophis anitae, or the Pingbian mountain pitviper, is a species of mountain pit viper endemic to China and northern Vietnam.[1] Like all pit vipers, it is venomous.[2] Originally, O. anitae was named Ovophis malhotrae by Zeng et al. (2023), but was renamed as that name was unavailable.[3] Both names are in honour of Dr. Anita Malhotra of Bangor University for her molecular biology work on Asian pitvipers.[4]
Description
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.[4]
The Pingbian mountain pitviper is distinguished from its relative species by various scale morphologies.[4]
References
- ↑ Liu, Shuo; Hou, Mian; Mo, Mingzhong; Li, Mei; Li, Biao; Luo, Xiong; Rao, Dingqi; Li, Song (2025-03-06). "A new species of the genus Ovophis Burger in Hoge & Romano-Hoge, 1981 (Serpentes, Viperidae) from southern Yunnan, China" (in en). ZooKeys 1230: 287–302. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1230.142967. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 11907264. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/142967/.
- ↑ "Ovophis anitae". https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/Ovophis/anitae.
- ↑ David, Patrick; Frétey, Thierry; Vogel, Gernot (2024-10-29). "The status of the nomen "Ovophis malhotrae" (Squamata, Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalinae)" (in en). Bionomina 38 (1): 55–61. doi:10.11646/bionomina.38.1.5. ISSN 1179-7657. https://mapress.com/bn/article/view/bionomina.38.1.5.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Zeng, Yang‐Mei; Li, Ke; Liu, Qin; Wu, Ya‐Yong; Hou, Shao‐Bing; Zhao, Gui‐Gang; Nguyen, Sang Ngoc; Guo, Peng et al. (2023). "New insights into the phylogeny and evolution of Chinese Ovophis (Serpentes, Viperidae): Inferred from multilocus data" (in en). Zoologica Scripta 52 (4): 358–369. doi:10.1111/zsc.12589. ISSN 0300-3256. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.12589.
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