Gloydius swild

Gloydius swild

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Viperoidea

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Gloydius
Species: Gloydius swild

Name

Gloydius swild Shi & Malhotra in Shi et al., 2021: 102

• Holotype: IVPP OV 2725, adult ♀, collected by Pi-Peng Li on 23 July 2017.
• Type locality: “Heishui, Aba, Sichuan (32.23°N, 102.80°E, 2940 m)”.
• Paratype: IVPP OV 2726, adult ♂, collected by Jia-Wei Wu, the same locality as the holotype.

References

Primary references

• Shi, J.-S., Liu, J.-C., Giri, R., Owens, J.B., Santra, V., Kuttalam, S., Selvan, M., Guo, K.-J. & Malhotra, A. 2021. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the genus Gloydius (Squamata, Viperidae, Crotalinae), with description of two new alpine species from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. ZooKeys 1061: 87–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1061.70420 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Glacier Pit Viper