Английская Википедия:Echis carinatus multisquamatus

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Echis carinatus multisquamatus, known as the multiscale saw-scaled viper and transcaspian saw-scaled viper,[1] is a viper subspecies[2] found in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Like all other vipers, it is venomous.

Description

This subspecies grows to Шаблон:Convert in total length (body + tail), but usually no more than Шаблон:Convert.[3]

Its head marking is always cross-shaped. Its lateral white line is continuous and undulating. Narrow transverse white bands occur on the middorsum. The dorsal scales are in 34-40 rows at midbody, the highest number of rows of all subspecies of E. carinatus. The ventrals number 169-199 (highest of all subspecies).[1]

Geographic range

The range for this snake is from Uzbekistan, south to Iran, and east to western Pakistan.[3]

The Wildlife of Pakistan website describes the range as from the Caspian Sea, through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent), into Tajikistan, along the Afghan border up to Hindukush, northeastern Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and eastern Iran.[1]

The type locality is listed as "Bairam-Ali, Mariskaya oblast, Turkmeniya" (Baýramaly, Mary Region, Turkmenistan).[4]

Taxonomy

It was classified as a separate species, E. multisquamatus, when first described by Cherlin (1981).[4]

References

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Further reading

  • Auffenberg W, Rehman H. 1991. Studies on Pakistan Reptiles. Pt. 1. The genus Echis (Viperidae). Bull. Florida Mus. Nat. Hist., Biol Sci. 35 (5): 263-314.
  • Cherlin VA. 1981. [A new saw-scaled viper, Echis multisquamatus sp. nov., from southwestern and central Asia]. [Proc. Zool. Inst. Acad. Sci. USSR] 101: 92-95. (in Russian).

External links

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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 Saw-scaled Viper, ... at Wildlife of Pakistan, Accessed 3 August 2006.
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  3. 3,0 3,1 Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company. 359 pp. Шаблон:ISBN.
  4. 4,0 4,1 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок McD99 не указан текст