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Animal: Ovophis spp., Mountain pitvipers

Formerly genus Trimeresurus

Species

  1. Ovophis convictus
  2. Ovophis jenkinsi
  3. Ovophis makazayazaya
  4. Ovophis malhotrae
  5. Ovophis monticola
  6. Ovophis okinavensis
  7. Ovophis tonkinensis
  8. Ovophis zayuensis

The genus Ovophis was previously included in the genus Trimeresurus (David and Ineich 1999, Gumprecht et al. 2004).

See also Trimeresurus spp. for detailed disscussion about the revision of the genus Trimeresurus.

Ovophis convictus, Ovophis makazayazaya and Ovophis zayunensis previously described as subspecies of Ovophis monticola.

Taxonomy

Serpentes; Viperidae; Crotalinae

Common names

  1. Indo-Malayan mountain pitviper
  2. Jenkins’ mountain pitviper
  3. Taiwan mountain pitviper
  4. Mountain pitviper
  5. Okinawa pitviper
  6. Tonkin pitviper
  7. Zayuan mountain pitviper

Distribution

See link "Distribution" at the top of the page for detailed information.

Indian Subcontinent eastwards to China, Taiwan and Ryukyu Islands.

Ovophis spp.

Biology

Smaller, ground-dwelling species in shades of brown and red with repeating, dark pattern along the back. Found also in mountainous zones at altitudes of up to more than 1,800 m.

Literature (biological)

David and Ineich 1999, David and Vogel 2015, Gumprecht et al. 2004, Malhotra and Thorpe 2004, Malhotra et al. 2011, Qiu et al. 2024, Zeng et al. 2023

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