Daboia mauritanica

Daboia mauritanica

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: Viperinae
Genus: Daboia
Species: Daboia mauritanica

Name

Daboia mauritanica (Gray, 1849)

• Lectotype: MNHN-RA-0.4017, ♀, collected by A. Guichenot between 1840–1842. [designated by Anderson (1892: 20)]
• Type locality: “Algiers”.

Combinations

• Clotho mauritanica Gray, 1849: 27 [original combination]
• Echidna mauritanica — Duméril & Bibron in Guichenot, 1850: 24 [subsequent combination]
• Bitis mauritanica — Günther, 1858: 268 [subsequent combination]
• Vipera mauritanica — Strauch, 1869: 79 [subsequent combination]
• Vipera euphratica mauritanica — Boettger, 1883 [subsequent combination]
• Vipera lebetina mauritanica — Schwarz, 1936 [subsequent combination]
• Daboia lebetina mauritanica — Obst, 1983 [subsequent combination]
• Macrovipera mauritanica — Herrmann, Joger & Nilson, 1992: 389 [subsequent combination]
• Daboia mauritanica — Lenk, Kalyabina, Wink & Joger, 2001 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Echidna mauritanica Duméril & Bibron in Guichenot, 1848: pl. 3 [nomen nudum]
• Vipera lebetina deserti Anderson, 1892: 20
  • Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.18.28 (formerly BMNH 1891.5.4.150), ♀, collected by native between May–June 1890, presented by J. Anderson.
  • Type locality: “Duirat, Tunisia”.

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1849. Catalogue of the specimens of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Edward Newman: London. i–xv + 1–125. BHL Reference page. 
• Anderson, J. 1892. On a small collection of Mammals, Reptiles, and Batrachians from Barbary. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 60(1): 3–24. BHL Reference page. 
• Martínez-Freiría, F., Crochet, P.-A., Fahd, S., Geniez, P., Brito, J.C. & Velo-Antón, G. 2017. Integrative phylogeographical and ecological analysis reveals multiple Pleistocene refugia for Mediterranean Daboia vipers in north-west Africa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 122(2): 366–384. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blx038 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Daboia mauritanica. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 5 May 2019.
• Miras, J.A.M., Joger, U., Pleguezuelos, J. & Slimani, T. 2006. IUCN: Daboia mauritanica  (Near Threatened). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T61494A12481914. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61494A12481914.en

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Atlasotter
English: Moorish Viper
français: Vipère de l'Atlas

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