Pseudocerastes urarachnoides Bostanchi, Anderson, Kami & Papenfuss 2006
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, Kermanshah (Iran) na. eskandarzadeh @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
- 2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, Kermanshah (Iran)
- 3. Biology, Faculty of Science, Hakim sabzevari University, Sabzevar (Iran)
- 4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yasouj University, Yasouj (Iran)
- 5. Biology, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad (Iran)
- 6. Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Lorestan University, Khorramabad (Iran)
Description
Pseudocerastes urarachnoides Bostanchi, Anderson, Kami & Papenfuss, 2006
Pseudocerastes urarachnoides Bostanchi, Anderson, Kami & Papenfuss, 2006: 446.
COMMON NAME. — Iranian Spider-tailed Viper.
HOLOTYPE. — FMNH 170929.
TYPE LOCALITY. — 70 km South West of Ilam, probably on road to Amirabad and Mehran, Ilam Province (Bostanchi et al. 2006).
DISTRIBUTION. — Ilam, Kermanshah and Khuzestan Provinces in West and South West of Iran (Fathinia et al. 2009).
HABITAT. — Primarily in limestone sediments occurring in the Provinces with recently-known narrow penetration into rocky habitats of the Zagros Mountains (Fathinia et al. 2014).
IUCN. — Data deficient.
REFERENCES. — Bostanchi et al. (2006); Fathinia et al. (2009); Fathinia (2014).
REMARK
Based on molecular data the Iranian Spider-tailed viper is more closely related to P. persicus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) than to P. fieldi Schmidt, 1930 (Fathinia 2014).
Class AVES Linnaeus, 1758 Order PASSERIFORMES Linnaeus, 1758 Family CORVIDAE Vigors, 1825 Genus Podoces Fischer Von Waldheim, 1821
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- FMNH
- Material sample ID
- FMNH 170929
- Scientific name authorship
- Bostanchi, Anderson, Kami & Papenfuss
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Viperidae
- Genus
- Pseudocerastes
- Species
- urarachnoides
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudocerastes urarachnoides Bostanchi, 2006 sec. Eskandarzadeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Rastegar-Pouyani, Fathinia, Bahmani, Hamidi & Gholamifard, 2018
References
- BOSTANCHI H., ANDERSON S. C., KAMI H. G. & PAPENFUSS T. J. 2006. - A new species of Pseudocerastes with elaborate tail ornamentation from western Iran (Squamata: Viperidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 57 (14): 443 - 450.
- FATHINIA B., ANDERSON S. C., RASTEGAR- POUYANI N., JAHANI H. & MOHAMADI H. 2009. - Notes on the natural history of Pseudocerastes urarachnoides (Squamata: Viperidae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 16: 134 - 138.
- FATHINIA B. 2014. - Taxonomic Status of the Genus Pseudocerastes in Iran based on Molecular and Morphologic Characters. Dissertation. Razi University of Kermanshah.