Vipera magnifica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Viperoidea

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Viperinae
Genus: Vipera
Species: Vipera magnifica

Vipera magnifica Tuniyev & Ostrovskikh, 2001: 123

Holotype: SD CSNBR No. 541, adult ♂, collected by B.S. Tuniyev on 24 June 1998.
Type locality: “Shakhghireevskoye Gorge, the Malaya Laba River, Krasnodarskii region, Russia”.
Synonymised with Vipera kaznakovi Nikolsky, 1909, by Zinenko, Sovic, Joger & Gibbs (2016: 9).

Tuniyev, B.S. & Ostrovskikh, S.V. 2001. Two New Species of Vipers of "kaznakovi" Complex (Ophidia, Viperinae) from the Western Caucasus. Russian Journal of Herpetology 8(2): 117–126. Reference page.
Zinenko, O., Sovic, M., Joger, U. & Gibbs, H.L. 2016. Hybrid origin of European Vipers (Vipera magnifica and Vipera orlovi) from the Caucasus determined using genomic scale DNA markers. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16: 76. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0647-7 Reference page.