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Bibliography of the reptiles of
Caucasus  [Armenia / Azerbaijan / Georgia / Iran / Russia / Turkey]

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.


Bartenef, A.; Reznikova, M. 1935. [Contributions to the fauna of amphibians and reptiles of the western and central parts of the Caucasian State Reserve]. (In Russian.). Bull. Mus. Georgie Tiflis 8: 11-41.

Bischoff, W. 1978. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Echsen des Kaukasus. Salamandra 14(4): 178-202.

Bischoff, W.; Schmidtler, J.F. 2014. Von Pallas bis Darevsky: Die Erforschung der Herpetofauna des Kaukasus am Beispiel der Echsen. Sekretär 14(2): 23-58.

Boettger, O. 1892. Kriechtiere der Kaukasusländer, gesammelt durch die Radde-Valentin'sche Expedition nach dem Karabagh und durch die Herren Dr. J. Valentin und P. Reibisch. Bericht über die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft 1892: 131-150.

Bozhansky, A.T.; Kudryavtsev, S.V. 1986. Ecological observations of the rare vipers of the Caucasus. pp. 495-498. In: Rocek, Z. (ed.). Studies in herpetology. Proceedings of the European herpetological meeting (3rd ordinary general meeting of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica), Prague 1985. Charles University, Prague. 754 pp.

Dinnik, N. 1926. [Snakes of northern Caucasus]. (In Russian). Bull. Sc. Instit. Explor. Reg. Caucase 1: 1-22.

Doronin, I.V. 2008. Data on the distribution of rare amphibians and reptiles of a West Caucasus and Predkavkaziye. pp. 105-111. In: Ananjeva, N.B.; Danilov, I.G.; Dunayev, E.A.; Ischenko, V.G.; Lada, G.A.; Litvinchuk, S.N.; Orlova, V.F.; Smirina, E.M.; Tuniyev, B.S. & Khalikov, R.G. (eds.). The problems of herpetology. Proceedings of the 3rd meeting of the Nikolsky Herpetological Society, 9-13 October 2006, Putschino. Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. 467 pp.

Filippi, F. de 1864. Riassunto del Catalogo degli Animali vertebrati delle Provincie caucasiche e della Persia occidentale. Atti. Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. 1864(September): 184-186.

Laister, A.F. 1910. [The venomous snakes of Caucasus]. (In Russian). Jestestv. i Geogr. Moskva 15(6): 1-15.

Lantz, L.A.; Cyrén, O. 1947. Les lezards sylvicoles de la caucasie. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 72: 169-191.

Lesson, R.P. 1832-1834. Reptiles. pp. 289-336, 522. pls. 1-7. In: Bélanger, I.G.S. (ed.). Voyage aux Indes-Orientales, par le nord de l'Europe, les provinces du Caucase, la Géorgie, l'Armenie, et la Perse, ..... pendant les années 1825-29. Zoologie. A. Bertrand, Paris. 535 pp.

Lukina, G.P.; Latyshev, V.Y. 1981. [Population structure of lizards from the Caucasus, in Kabardin-Balkaria]. pp. 84-85. 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).

Mehely, L.V. von 1893. Beiträge zur Herpetologie Transkaukasiens und Armeniens. Zoologischer Anzeiger 17: 78-86.

Menetries, E. 1832. Catalogue raisonne des objects de Zool. recueillis dans un voyage au Caucase et jusqu'aux frontieres actuelles de la Perse. St. Petersburg.

Menetries, E. 1832. Catalogue raisonné des objets de zoologie recueillis dans un voyage au Caucase et jusqu'aux frontières actuelles de la Perse. Imper. Acad. Sci., St. Petersbourg. 271 pp.

Mertens, R. 1968. Neuere Untersuchungen über die Felseneidechsen des Kaukasus. Senckenbergiana Biologica 49: 437-441.

Nikolsky, A.M. 1886. Contribution to the knowledge of the fauna of vertebrate animals of north-eastern Persia and Transcaucasia. Transactions St. Petersb. Soc. Nat. 17: Unpaginated.

Nikolsky, A.M. 1909. [Novae species reptilium e Caucaso]. (In Russian). Izvestiya Kavkazskogo Muzeya 4: 301-306.

Nikolsky, A.M. 1913. Herpetologia caucasica. Museum Caucasicum, Tiflis. 272 pp.

Radde, G. 1886. Die Fauna und Flora des südwestlichen Caspi-Gebietes. Leipzig.

Satunin, K.A. 1906. [Über die herpetologische Fauna des Kaukasus-Gebiets]. (In Russian). Tiflis, Izv. Kavk. Otd. Russ. Geogr. Obsc. (Tiflis) 18 [1905-1906]: 133-140.

Schmidt, D. 1988. The snakes of Transcaucasia. Part 1. Typhlops and Eryx. Snake Keeper 2(11): 8-12.

Schmidt, D. 1988. The snakes of Transcaucasia. Part 2. Colubrids. Snake Keeper 2(12): 7-10, 12.

Schmidt, D. 1989. The snakes of Transcaucasia. Part 3. Eirenis, Telescopus and Vipera. Snake Keeper 3(1): 13-18.

Schreiber, E. 1878. Naturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Kaukasusländer. Dresden. pp. 94-96.

Terentjev, P.V. 1926. [A list of reptiles from Province of Terek (Caucasus)]. (In Russian). Bull. Sci. Inst. Explor. Reg. Caucase Nord. Vladicaucase 1: 307-310.

Tuniyev, B.S. 1990. [Herpetofauna of the unique Kolkhid forests and their present day refuges]. pp. 55-70. (In Russian). In: Snakin, V.V. (ed.). Pochvenno-biogeotsenologicheskie issledovaniya na Severo-Zapadnom Kavkaze. [Soil biogeocenological research in the north west Caucasus.] Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Pushchino. 161 pp.

Tuniyev, B.S. 1990. On the independence of the Colchis Center of amphibian and reptile speciation. Asiatic Herpetological Research 3: 67-84.

Tuniyev, B.S. 1995. On the Mediterranean influence on the formation of herpetofauna of the Caucasian Isthmus and its main xerophylous refugia. Russian Journal of Herpetology 2(2): 95-119.

Tuniyev, B.S. 2008. High mountain snake’s reproduction strategy in the Caucasus. pp. 401-407. In: Ananjeva, N.B.; Danilov, I.G.; Dunayev, E.A.; Ischenko, V.G.; Lada, G.A.; Litvinchuk, S.N.; Orlova, V.F.; Smirina, E.M.; Tuniyev, B.S. & Khalikov, R.G. (eds.). The problems of herpetology. Proceedings of the 3rd meeting of the Nikolsky Herpetological Society, 9-13 October 2006, Putschino. Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. 467 pp.

Vereshchagin, N.K. 1958. [Systematic review of the animals of the Caucasian isthmus. III. Reptilia]. (In Russian). Zhivotnui Mir U.S.S.R. 5: 261-280.

Williams, L.; Zazanashvili, N.; Sanadiradze, G. (eds.) 2005. Ecoregional conservation plan for the Caucasus. WWF, Tbilisi. 223 pp.