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Bibliography of the reptiles of
Armenia

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Agasjan, A.L. 1985. [Recent state of rare species of reptiles in Armenia and the ways of their conservation]. (In Russian, English summary). Biologicheskii Zhurnal Armenii 38(8): 661-665.

Agasyan, A.L. 1987. Snakes of Yerevan City and adjacent territories. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 158: 26-32.

Agasyan, A.L. 2003. Syntopic populations of Orsini's Viper (Vipera ursinii) and adder (Vipera berus) in Northeastern Montenegro. pp. 29-30. In: Anonymous. Herpetologia Petropolitana. Programme and abstracts. 12th ordinary general meeting. Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH). Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 12-16 August 2003. Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH). 201 pp.

Arakelyan, M.S.; Danielyan, F.D. 2000. [Growth and age in some parthenogenetic and bisexual species of Rock Lizards (Lacerta) from Armenia]. (In Russian, English summary). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(5): 584-590.

Arakelyan, M.S.; Danielyan, F.D.; Corti, C.; Sindaco, R.; Leviton, A.E. 2011. Herpetofauna of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Contributions to Herpetology 27: 1-149.

Arakelyan, M.S.; Parham, J.F. 2008. The geographic distribution of turtles in Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh). Chelonian Conservation and Biology 7(1): 70-77.

Ayroumian, K.A. 1984. [The ways of protection and reproduction of rare and vanishing animals of Armenia]. (In Russian, English summary). Biologicheskii Zhurnal Armenii 37(1): 59-65.

Bader, T.; Kopeczky, R.; Riegler, C.; Wieland, F. 2016. Die Eidechsen Armeniens – Teil 1: Die Gattung Darevskia. Die Eidechse 27(1): 1-14.

Bader, T.; Kopeczky, R.; Riegler, C.; Wieland, F. 2016. Die Eidechsen Armeniens – Teil 2: Die Gattungen Lacerta, Ophisops, Parvilacerta und Eremias. Die Eidechse 27(2): 33-46.

Bischoff, W. 1973. Echsen des Kaukasus. Aquarien Terrarien Monatschrift für Ornithologie und Vivarienkunde 20(8): 274-275.

Bischoff, W.; Engelmann, W.E. 1976. Herpetologische Ergebnisse einiger Sammelreisen im Kaukasus und in Transkaukasien. Zoologische Jahrbücher (Syst.) 103(3): 361-376.

Chernov, S.A. 1926. Sur la connaissance de la faune herpetologique d'Armenie et de la contree du Nakhiezevan. Bulletin Sci. Inst. Explor. Reg. Caucase Nord. Vladicaucase 1: 63-72.

Chernov, S.A. 1937. [Field guide to the snakes, lizards, and turtles of Armenia] (In Russian). Acad. Sci. USSR, Leningrad. 55 pp.

Chernov, S.A. 1939. On the herpetological fauna of Armenia and Nachichevan ARSS. Zool. Pap. Biol. Inst. Erevan 1: 77-194.

Dahl, S.K. 1945. The vertebrates on the Saraybulag Mountain Range. Zool. Pap. Biol. Inst. Erevan 3: 5-46.

Dalj, S.K. 1954. [Animal kingdom of the Armenian SSR. Vol. 1. Vertebrates. (Amphibians and reptiles: pp. 281-302)]. (In Russian). Publ. Armenian Acad. Sci., Erivan. 415 pp.

Darevsky, I.S. 1955. [On the systematic position of Caucasian lizards and snakes]. (In Russian). Izv. Akad. Nauk. Armen. S.S.R. Biol. 8(7): 111-113.

Darevsky, I.S. 1960. [Poisonous snakes of Armenia]. (In Armenian). Aipetrat Ed., Erivan. 47 pp.

Darevsky, I.S. 1975. [Endangered and rare species of amhpibians and reptiles of the Caucasus]. pp. 64-67. (In Russian). In: [Materials from the conference 'Fauna and its conservation in the republics of the Caucasus', 23-28 September 1975]. Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology, Izdatel'stvo AN Armenian SSR, Yerevan.

Ettling, J.A.; Aghasyan, A.L.; Aghasyan, L.A. 2015. The conservation of rare Armenian vipers Montivipera raddei and Pelias spp. pp. 81–88. In: Zoological Society of London (ed.). International Zoo Yearbook. Vol. 49. Reptile Conservation. Zoological Society of London, London. 442 pp.

Hakhverdian, L.A. 2000. [The snakes - bioindicators before earthquakes]. (In Russian). Doklady Natsional'noi Akademii Nauk Armenii 100(3): 253-257.

Hemmerling, J.; Meusel, W. 1970. Exkursionsergebnisse aus dem Kaukasus. Aquarien Terrarien 17: 120-123.

Hemmerling, J.; Meusel, W.; Obst, F.J. 1974. Amfibiën en reptielen uit het noordelijke en centrale deel van de Kaukasus (Sovjet-unie). Lacerta 32(5): 85-92.

Höggren, M.; Nilson, G.; Andrén, C.; Orlov, N.L.; Tuniyev, B.S. 1993. Vipers of the Caucasus: natural history and systematic review. Herpetological Natural History 1(2): 11-19.

Kuzmin, S.L. 1981. [On lizard ecology in Nakhichevan ASSR]. pp. 78-79. In: Darevsky, I.S.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Barkagan, Z.S.; Borkin, L.Y.; Sokolova, T.M. & Szczerbak, N.N. (eds.). The problems of herpetology: abstracts. Nauka, Leningrad. 163 pp. (abstract, in Russian).

Ledentsov, A.V.; Melkumyan, L.S. 1987. [On longevity and growth rate in amphibians and reptiles in Armenia]. (In Russian, English summary). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta 158: 105-110.

Luppa, H.; Muller, G.; Nicht, M.; Tietze, F. 1959. Vorläufiger Bericht über eine durchgeführte zoologische Sammelreise nach Armenien. Wise. Z. M.-Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg. Math.-Nat. R. 9(2): 259-262.

Melkumyan, L.S. 1976. [An ecological analysis of some species of desert lizards with the help of morphological indicators]. pp. 104-106. (In Russian). In: [Materials from the conference 'Fauna and its conservation in the republics of the Caucasus', 23-28 September 1975]. Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology, Izdatel'stvo AN Armenian SSR, Yerevan.

Orlova, V.F. 1973. [Herpetofauna in the northern part of the Caucasus State Reservation]. (In Russian). Vestnik Zoologii 1973(2): 61-65.

Rotter, J. 1958. Die Reise nach Transkaukasien. Aquarien und Terrarien (Leipzig) 5: 286-291.

Rustamov, A.K. 1981. [Zoogeographical relations of the herpetofauna of middle Asia and the Caucasus]. (In Russian, English summary). Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody Otdel Biologicheskii 86(4): 31-36.

Tadevosyan, T.L. 2005. Habitat suitability for reptiles in the Goravan Sands Sanctuary, Armenia. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 1(1): 39-44.

Tuniyev, B.S. 1989. [Rare Amphibia and Reptilia from the Caucasus biosphere reserves]. pp. 96-101. (In Russian). In: Amirkhanov, A.M. (ed.). Redkie i nuzhdayushchiesya v okhrane zhivotnye: materialy k Krasnoi Knigi: sbornik nauchnykh trudov. [Rare and threatened animals: materials to the Red Data Book: collected scientific papers]. TsNIL Glavokhoty RSFSR, Moscow. 176 pp.

Tuniyev, B.S.; Hunanian, Y.S. 1986. [Species composition and daily activity of reptiles of Khosrov State Reserve]. (In Russian, English summary). Biologicheskii Zhurnal Armenii 39(7): 572-576.